spendthrift
英 [ˈspendθrɪft]
美 [ˈspendθrɪft]
n. 花钱无度的人; 挥霍者
adj. 浪费的，奢侈的
复数：spendthrifts
BNC.34671 / COCA.29234
牛津词典
noun
- 花钱无度的人；挥霍者
a person who spends too much money or who wastes money
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 挥霍者;浪费金钱的人
If you call someone aspendthrift, you mean that they spend too much money.- Spendthriftis also an adjective.
- ...his father's spendthrift ways.
他父亲挥金如土
- Spendthriftis also an adjective.
英英释义
noun
- someone who spends money prodigally
adj
- recklessly wasteful
- prodigal in their expenditures
双语例句
- One of Turan's complaints: "All that money also allowed spendthrift Spider-Man3 to acquire too many villains" including an egomaniacal Spider-Man alter ego himself.
图兰也抱怨道“所有那些投资金促使挥霍无度的《蜘蛛侠3》请来了太多的恶棍”，其中包括一个转变成极端利己分子的蜘蛛侠。 - What a spendthrift! All the money he makes goes on new ears.
他真是个花钱如流水的人！挣的钱都用来购置新车。 - Spendthrift, who had wasted his fortune, and had nothing left but the clothes in which he stood, saw a swallow one fine day in early spring.
有一个败家子，已挥霍完他所有的财产，就剩下身上穿的衣服了。早春的一个晴天，他看到了一只燕子。 - He accused the Council of being spendthrift.
他指控委员会挥钱财。 - Even so, the spendthrift cannot afford to wait for economic growth to pull their debt burdens down.
但即便如此，这个大手惯了的国家等不及用经济增长来减轻债务负担了。 - From China's perspective, Mr Obama's emergency measures to stimulate the US economy and persuade Americans to spend their way out of recession smack of re-creating the spendthrift ways that triggered the crisis in the first place.
在中国看来，奥巴马刺激美国经济以及劝说国人通过消费摆脱衰退的紧急措施，都带着点重蹈覆辙的意味，因为最先引发这场危机的，正是大肆挥霍的消费方式。 - If anything, it is Beijing some of whose officials now privately boast they have nothing at all to learn from the Great Spendthrift that has the upper hand.
总之，北京占了上风。中国某些官员现在私下夸耀，美国这个大挥霍者根本没有什么值得他们学习的。 - As a good manager, he would put a stop to such spendthrift courses.
他既然是一个善于经理钱财的人，就应当阻止这种浪费的行径。 - The oil industry, given half a chance, is inefficient and spendthrift.
石油行业只要稍有机会就会变得低效和挥霍无度。 - Those that used to play are playing still, so spendthrift is life.
常常在游戏的那些人，仍然还在那里游戏，生命总是如此地浪费。