profligate

• adj. 放荡的，不检点的；恣意挥霍的
• n. 放荡者；享乐者

pro-,向前，-flig,击，打，词源同afflict,conflict.比喻用法。

1. a dissolute man in fashionable society

2. a recklessly extravagant consumer

profligate

profligate: [16] Something that is profligate has etymologically been ‘beaten down’ to a state of ruination or degradation. The word was adapted from Latin prōflīgātus ‘destroyed, dissolute’, an adjective based on the past participle of prōflīgāre ‘beat down, destroy’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix prō- ‘forward’ (used here in the sense ‘down’) and flīgere ‘hit’ (source also of English afflict, conflict [15], and inflict [16]).
=> afflict, conflict, inflict

profligate (adj.)

1520s, "overthrown, routed" (now obsolete in this sense), from Latin profligatus "destroyed, ruined, corrupt, abandoned, dissolute," past participle of profligare "to cast down, defeat, ruin," from pro- "down, forth" (see pro-) + fligere "to strike" (see afflict). Main modern meaning "recklessly extravagant" is 1779, via notion of "ruined by vice" (1640s, implied in a use of profligation). Related: Profligately. As a noun from 1709.

profligate spending

恣意挥霍的开支

牛津词典

...the most profligate consumer of energy in the world.

世界上能源挥霍最严重的国家

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Thus the crisis punishes the frugal more than the profligate.

如此看来,危机对节俭者的惩罚,要比对恣意挥霍者更为严厉.

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German public opinion is firmly set against the public purse to help the profligate Greeks.

德国舆论坚决反对使用其国库的钱来帮助挥霍的希腊人.

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But like all the most successful illicit traders, China is ideologically profligate in its relations.

就像那些成功的违法交易以一样, 中国正在享受这种关系带来的好处.

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He is a careless profligate.

他是个粗枝大叶的浪荡子.

辞典例句

Yet they have something in common: both involve the profligate deployment of resources.

然而这些行为却有着一些共同之处: 它们都牵涉了大肆的资源挥霍.

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It is not: the frugal depend on the profligate.

但事实并非如此: 节俭者要依靠挥霍者.

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Lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man and is somehow a little profligate.

莉是个女孩,英俊的男人跟异国情调, 不知何故,有点挥霍无度.

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Similarly Americans have been profligate in the handling of mineral resources.

同样的,美国在处理矿产资源方面亦多浪费.

辞典例句

He is wicked and profligate.

他厚颜无耻,道德败坏.

辞典例句

In her profligate life, she lost all sense of decency.

在她放荡的生活中, 她完全丧失了一个正常人的理智.

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Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy.

他们挥霍的生活方式导致的破产.

《简明英汉词典》

Why do you bring your profligate companions here?

为什么你要把你那些酒肉朋友带到这里来 呢 ?

辞典例句

At a stroke, we would know who was profligate with company money and who was parsimonious.

这样我们一下子就能知道谁在恣意挥霍公司钱财,而谁节俭吝啬.

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This young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water.

这个青年完全有可能成为十足的浪子.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The young profligate needs to be controlled.

他年少狂荡,需要管教!

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The region's profligate economies will struggle for longer as austerity kicks in.

随着财政紧缩政策的出台,那些挥土如金的欧元国家可能将会挣扎更久.

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As investors focus on that gap, the most profligate rich countries, such as Britain, will suffer.

投资者对此极为关注, 最为铺张浪费的发达国家, 比如英国, 将遭受沉重打击.

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The Germans want a different sort of centralisation, built on rules to punish the profligate.

德国人希望另一种类型的中央集权, 它建立在对挥霍型政府进行惩罚的原则之上.

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