profligate

adj.

1. 挥霍的；浪费的
   using money, time, materials, etc. in a careless way
   1. profligate spending
      恣意挥霍的开支

1. ADJ-GRADED 挥霍的；浪费的
   Someone who is profligate spends too much money or uses too much of something.
   1. ...the most profligate consumer of energy in the world.
      世界上能源挥霍最严重的国家

1. 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。
2. Much of the money that fueled the speculative boom came from profligate Spanish banks.
   在助推投机性繁荣的资金当中，有许多来自肆意挥霍的西班牙银行。
3. And Qaddafi's profligate weapons purchases have left Libya with mountains of unsecured armaments.
   卡扎菲购买的大量武器装备保管不善，给利比亚留下了许多毫无戒备的武器库。
4. The profligate use of our data has become a big concern for many Americans.
   对我们的数据的恣意使用，已经成了许多美国人担心的大问题。
5. In the money-glut world, however, the world's savers are passive victims, profligate Americans are villains and the Federal Reserve is an anti-hero.
   然而，在资金过剩的世界中，世界上的储蓄国是被动受害者，大肆挥霍的美国人是作恶者，而美联储是个反英雄。
6. Investments in health care, education and energy, however, would bring benefits in the future. But we are not going to be able to go back to our profligate ways.
   然而，奥巴马又指出，在医疗保健、教育和能源上的投资会在未来获取收益，但我们将不能返回过去挥霍的生活方式。
7. Instead of lending surplus savings to profligate foreigners, Germans could enjoy higher living standards at home.
   德国不再把多余的储蓄出借给挥霍无度的外国人，本国国民的生活水准就可能显著提高。
8. 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。
9. Thus, foreign direct investment, where the project is chosen by the foreign investor directly, makes a positive contribution to growth that financing the liabilities of bad banks or profligate governments does not.
   因此，由外国投资者直接挑选项目的外商直接投资，对经济增长作出了积极贡献，而为管理不善的银行或者肆意挥霍的政府提供资金，以偿还其负债，则不可能产生积极影响。
10. Seventh, the reduction of global imbalances implies that the current account deficits of profligate economies, such as the US, will narrow the surpluses of countries that over-save ( China and other emerging markets, Germany and Japan).
    第七，全球失衡状况有所改善，意味着美国等大肆挥霍的经济体的经常账户赤字，将使得那些过度储蓄国家（中国及其它新兴市场、德国和日本）的盈余收窄。
11. Germany is demanding changes to the European treaties that would concentrate unprecedented power in Brussels to scrutinise budgets and sanction profligate governments.
    德国正要求对欧盟各项条约进行修订，将空前权力集中至布鲁塞尔，由其对预算进行审查，并对肆意挥霍的政府进行制裁。
12. She recognises the deep hostility of her voters to big fiscal transfers to weaker, more profligate euro-zone countries.
    她意识到，对她敌意较深的选民更肆意挥霍欧元区国家的财富。
13. Meanwhile, in the other group there was little inclination either to profligate spending or to good works.
    与此同时，在另外一个小组中却很少发现有肆意挥霍或致力于善行的倾向。
14. During the past decade, profligate government spending, tax cuts for the wealthy, two wars and the recession turned a record surplus into a yawning deficit.
    在以前的十年中，肆意挥霍的政府开支、对敷裕阶级的减税、两场战争和经济衰退把一个创历史记载的盈利并成了一个重大的赤字。
15. The striking feature, indeed, is that the worst-hit economies are not those of profligate, high-spending countries, such as the UK and US, but of prudent, high-saving countries, such as Germany and Japan.
    实际上，其中最引人注目的特征是，受冲击最严重的不是肆意挥霍的高支出国家，例如英国和美国，而是一些谨慎的高储蓄国家，例如德国和日本。
16. 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。
17. 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？
18. 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。
19. She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.
    她因极其浪费的花钱习惯而出名。
20. Northern Europeans resent a monetary union that has permitted southern Europe to engage in what they see as fiscally profligate behaviour, while southern Europeans and the Irish are required to submit to extreme austerity programmes that exacerbate their sovereign debt problems.
    欧洲北部国家对货币联盟感到不满，因为它允许欧洲南部国家从事被其视为财政挥霍的行为。同时欧洲南部国家和爱尔兰被要求实施极端的紧缩计划，这加剧了它们的主权债务问题。
21. In punishing profligate borrowers, they also damage their own citizens.
    在惩罚挥霍无度的债务国的同时，这种做法也伤害了本国民众。
22. Some ( mostly Germany) want a tough new regime to punish the profligate.
    一些国家（主要是德国）希望建立新的严厉的体制，以惩罚挥霍者。
23. A profligate use of scarce resources.
    对稀少的资源的恣意挥霍。
24. Profligate deficit countries may have created these viruses. They are not the most vulnerable to it.
    创造出这些病毒的或许是挥霍无度的赤字国，但它们却并非最容易受到冲击的。
25. Before the credit crisis started to brew, investors were almost as keen to own the public debt of profligate Italy as that of prudent Germany.
    就在信贷危机爆发之前，投资者对挥霍无度的意大利公债的热情甚至不亚于对节俭的德国国债的热衷。
26. But avoiding the sort of profligate spending of the US and UK has not saved Japan, Germany and China from credit bust fallout.
    但是，避免美英等国那种大肆消费习惯，并未使日本、德国和中国免受信贷萧条的冲击。
27. The Germans want a different sort of centralisation, built on rules to punish the profligate.
    德国人想建立另外一种类型的中央集权，建立在对挥霍型政府进行惩罚的原则之上。
28. 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。
29. I don't think that ( United no longer being a PLC) has changed it and I wouldn't want our owners to think we're more profligate under them than we were under the previous regime.
    我不认为（曼联不再是股份制）改变了他，我和不希望我们的所有者认为我们在他们的拥有下比原来挥霍。
30. But China and the continental European countries, led by Germany, argue it is all the fault of profligate deficit countries.
    但中国和以德国为首的欧洲大陆国家辩称，一切都应归咎于恣意挥霍的赤字国家。

noun

1. a recklessly extravagant consumer

   Synonym:    prodigalsquanderer

2. a dissolute man in fashionable society

   Synonym:    rakerakehellripbloodroue

adj

1. unrestrained by convention or morality
   1. Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
   2. deplorably dissipated and degraded
   3. riotous living
   4. fast women

   Synonym:    debaucheddegeneratedegradeddissipateddissolutelibertineriotousfast

2. recklessly wasteful
   1. prodigal in their expenditures

   Synonym:    extravagantprodigalspendthrift