prodigal

英 [ˈprɒdɪɡl] 美 [ˈprɑːdɪɡl]

adj.  浪费的; 挥霍的; 大手大脚的
n.  浪费者; 浪子; [动]军曹鱼

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BNC.19816 / COCA.19847



牛津词典

adj.

  1. 浪费的;挥霍的;大手大脚的
    too willing to spend money or waste time, energy or materials

    柯林斯词典

    1. ADJ 浪子回头的
      You can describe someone as a prodigal son or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person.
      1. ...the parable of the prodigal son.
        关于浪子回头的寓言
      2. Prodigal is also a noun.
      3. ...the prodigal had returned.
        浪子回头了。
    2. ADJ 挥霍的;浪费的;奢侈的
      Someone who behaves in a prodigal way spends a lot of money carelessly without thinking about what will happen when they have none left.
      1. Prodigal habits die hard.
        大手大脚的习惯很难改掉。

    双语例句

    1. A prodigal who returns is more precious than gold.
      浪子回头金不换。
    2. , and the return of the prodigal co-founder, Jack Dorsey, as chairman and head of product.
      ,以及联合创始人、放荡不羁的杰克•多西回归公司,担任董事长和产品主管等等,不一而足。
    3. I am determined, I really like the back of a prodigal son, back home, back to my father's side.
      我决心,我要像一个真正回头的浪子,回到家里,回到我父亲的身边。
    4. Her novel, Home, is a profound examination of family life told through the eyes of a prodigal son returning home to confront his past and his alcoholism.
      《家》的获奖没有任何争议,所有的评委一致把选票投给了她。小说讲述了一个回家的浪子,通过他的视角,回顾了不堪的过去,同时努力从酗酒的生活中挣脱。
    5. Your violence, Young prodigal, Is typical.
      你的暴力,年轻的浪子,是典型的无知表现。
    6. I hope there's a fatted calf awaiting the return of the prodigal.
      我真希望这儿有只肥牛腿等着我们回来。
    7. I love wanton and as, I like the carefree, I like the sword walking Wandering the prodigal son that wanton debauchery.
      我爱肆意而为,我喜欢无忧无虑,我喜欢仗剑走天涯那肆意放荡的浪子。
    8. Are you a prodigal, a pharisee or a servant?
      你是浪子,是法利赛人还是仆人?
    9. That lack of understanding and his self-righteous stance had separated him from his father just as much as the prodigal's misguided wanderings had done.
      这种理解和他的自我的正义立场没有脱离过他的父亲一样,浪子的误导他做了很多流浪。
    10. Are you going to kill the fatted calf for the prodigal son, Jack?
      杰克,浪子回家,你准备宰杀那头小肥牛吗?
    11. He wrote of this darkest period in life, when he referred to his father as "the Prodigal Father," in David Copperfield.
      他在《大.科波菲尔》称父亲为「那挥霍的父亲」,说的就是这段他一生最黑暗的日子。
    12. The old man cast off his prodigal son and disinherited him.
      老人断绝了与他的不肖儿子的关系,并剥夺了他的继承权。
    13. A crowd of children came and were very happy to hear stories ( I brought the storybooks of Luke, the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son, etc).
      一群小孩子聚集,他们很乐意听故事(我带了路得,好撒玛利亚人和浪子回家等故事书)。
    14. The parables of the lost sheep and the prodigal son.
      有关迷途羔羊和浪子回头的寓言。
    15. Do not provoke prodigal son of arts, culture, youth and middle-aged man.
      不要招惹浪子、文艺青年和中年男子。
    16. There have been rumours that he has been prodigal with company funds.
      有谣言说他挥霍公司的资金。
    17. He also taught us the example of the Father in the Prodigal Son.
      他亦利用浪子回头比喻中父亲的榜样来训导我们。
    18. He was our prodigal son, and we watched him grow up all over the world, but knew that his heart was always here, at home.
      他是我们的浪子,我们看着他成长,足迹遍布世界,但我们知道他的心始终在这里,在故乡。
    19. The teaching of the parable does not end, however, with the prodigal's return.
      该寓言教学并没有结束,但是,与浪子的归来。
    20. A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
      [谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。
    21. Just as the father did not condemn the prodigal for his wanderings, neither did he become angry with his second son's bitterness and jealousy.
      正如父亲没有谴责他流浪的浪子,他也没有成为他的第二个儿子的痛苦和嫉妒愤怒。
    22. He has been prodigal of the money left by his parents.
      他已挥霍掉他父母留下的钱。
    23. The story of the Prodigal Son, also known as the Parable of the Lost Son, follows the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin.
      浪子回头的故事,也作为著名的比喻失去了儿子,遵循的是迷失的羊和丢失的硬币的比喻。
    24. Only then did the prodigal come to understand that nothing had changed, nothing had been lost, nothing had destroyed his identity or his father's love.
      只有这样做了浪子认识到,什么都没有改变,什么也没有失去,什么都没有毁掉了他的身份和他父亲的爱。
    25. Are you kidding? The prodigal Luthor son returns.
      开什么玩笑,路德企业的多金浪子。
    26. The genius in his works, in his deeds, is necessarily a prodigal.
      创作里的天才,行为上定是个挥霍者。
    27. Just look at the father of the prodigal son.
      只要想想那位浪子的父亲,你们还记得吗?
    28. All the family went to the airport to welcome home the prodigal son.
      全家人都去机场迎接这个回头的浪子。
    29. I was acting in a play called the return of the prodigal.
      我当时正在《浪子回头》一剧中担任角色。

    习惯用语

    adj.

      the/a prodigal (son)

    • 回头的浪子;改邪归正的人
      a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home

      英英释义

      noun

      1. a recklessly extravagant consumer

          Synonym:    profligatesquanderer

        adj

        1. recklessly wasteful
          1. prodigal in their expenditures

          Synonym:    extravagantprofligatespendthrift