- profligate
- ['prɔfliɡət, -ɡeit]
- adj. 放荡的,不检点的;恣意挥霍的
n. 放荡者;享乐者
同义词
参考例子
- 1.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。
- 2.The Germans want a different sort of centralisation, built on rules to punish the profligate.
- 德国人需要的是一种不同的集权制,它建立在惩罚挥霍的基础上。
- 3.So these changes are only a minor portent of what is likely to come, especially if we continue on our carbon-profligate pathway.
- 所以这些变化仅仅是将来气候变化的前兆,尤其是在如果我们继续肆意排放二氧化碳的情况下。
英文解释
- n.
- 1.a dissolute man in fashionable society
- 2.a recklessly extravagant consumer
- adj.
- 1.recklessly wasteful
- 2.unrestrained by convention or morality
网络释义
- profligate
- 恣意,放荡的; 放荡的; 放荡者,享乐者; 挥霍者;
- profligate roue
- 享乐者;
- dissolute profligate
- 肆意挥霍的;
- prodigal profligate wastrel spendthrift
- 四大挥霍;
- The profligate son
- 败家子;