profligacy

英 [ˈprɒflɪɡəsi]

美 [ˈprɑːflɪɡəsi]

n.  挥霍; 浪费

BNC.34527 / COCA.33795

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 挥霍；浪费
  Profligacyis the spending of too much money or the using of too much of something.
  1. ...the continuing profligacy of certain states.
     某些州持续存在的肆意挥霍现象

英英释义

noun

• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
  Synonym:dissipationdissolutionlicentiousnesslooseness
• the trait of spending extravagantly
  Synonym:extravaganceprodigality

双语例句

• There may be a way to combat this credit-card in-duced profligacy.
  可能会有方法来抑制这种信用卡肆意消费。
• Third, investors panicking about the eurozone or US profligacy had to buy something when selling euros and dollars.
  第三，对欧元区或美国的挥霍感到恐慌的投资者们在抛售欧元和美元后，总得买点什么。
• The Gilded Age was one of extreme profligacy, both in business investment and sumptuous expenditure.
  不管是商业投资、还是豪华消费，镀金时代（GildedAge）都算得上极度挥霍的时期之一。
• But United punished them for their early profligacy in the most clinical of fashion.
  但是曼联用最好的方式惩罚了他们的浪费。
• There is more to the story than an angry collision between Greek profligacy and German moral superiority.
  这件事不仅仅是希腊人的挥霍无度和德国人的道德优越感之间的迎头怒撞。
• But if he is to tackle all or any of this, he must balance his plans with other savings or new revenues if his legacy is not to be one of profligacy and debt.
  如果他想解决上述全部或部分问题，他必须用在其它地方省下来的钱，或者新的收入来为他的这些计划买单–如果他不希望自己留下的遗产是挥霍浪费或巨额债务的话。
• But would not the puncturing of the balanced budget myth give the green light to vast government profligacy?
  不过，打破预算平衡的神话会不会为政府大肆挥霍大开绿灯？
• Thus Scotland would have an incentive towards profligacy that the rest of the UK would not.
  因此，苏格兰有动机趋向挥霍，英国其余地区则没有。
• Equally predictably, the surplus countries see things differently, and blame the profligacy and the debt addiction of the debtor countries.
  同样可以预见的是，盈余国家的视角会有所不同，将问题归咎于债务国的铺张浪费和借债上瘾。
• Deficit countries cannot be expected to spend their way into bankruptcy, while surplus countries condemn as profligacy the spending from which their exporters benefit so much.
  不可能指望赤字国家花钱花到破产，同时，顺差国家还在指责这是铺张浪费，尽管它们的出口企业从中获利丰厚。