profligacy

1. N-UNCOUNT 挥霍；浪费
   Profligacy is 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

1. 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。
2. They say Europe needs a lot more fiscal profligacy if it is to bring unemployment down.
   他们表示，如果要降低失业率，欧洲需要更多的财政挥霍。
3. And we have discussed how to chart the right path to steer clear of the dangers of deflation and inflation, prolonged fiscal profligacy and premature frugality.
   我们讨论了如何探索正确的道路，规避通胀与通缩、长时间财政浪费和过早节俭的风险。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. Neither should we expect the "return" of American consumers indeed, we should worry at their reappearance, for what it says about both their rationality and a financial system that facilitates such profligacy.
   我们也不应指望美国消费者的“回归”，实际上，他们回归才让人担忧，因为这既说明了他们的理性问题，也说明了金融体系为这种挥霍行为提供了方便。
7. Profligacy is the new prudence.
   挥霍应该是一种新式的审慎。
8. 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。
9. The profligacy of the West shocked him.
   西方的极度浪费使他震惊。
10. A few years ago most economists argued that the spectacle of poor countries bankrolling America's deficits was the perverse and unsustainable consequence of American profligacy.
    在几年前，大多数经济学都认为，穷国资助美国赤字的壮观景象是美国人肆意挥霍所产生的不正常也不可持续的结果。
11. China's overall surplus and America's overall deficit have less to do with the value of the yuan than with Chinese saving and American profligacy.
    中国的全部顺差和美国的全部逆差同（人民币）元的价值的关联要小于同中国人储蓄和美国人挥霍的关联。
12. The Asians 'parsimony made the Anglo-Saxons' profligacy possible.
    亚洲人的过度节约给盎格鲁撒克逊人创造了肆意挥霍的可能性。
13. 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。
14. IN GERMAN EYES this crisis is all about profligacy.
    在德国人看来，这场危机全因挥霍而起。
15. Many Latin American countries have also shaken off the fiscal and current account profligacy for which the region was once famous, and commodity exporters across the emerging world have benefited from the big rise in food, oil and metals prices.
    许多拉美国家也已经摆脱肆意挥霍财政和经常账户资金的曾有恶名，并且新兴世界的所有大宗商品出口者都已从食品、石油及金属价格的大幅上涨中受益。
16. Fiscal hawks would argue this is the price to pay for the profligacy of the recent past.
    财政鹰派可能辩称，这是人们为过去一段时间肆意挥霍付出的代价。
17. 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。
18. 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？
19. There was tut-tutting about American profligacy.
    中国对美国的肆意挥霍发出了不满的啧啧声。
20. 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。
21. The former will soon discover they cannot do without the profligacy of the latter.
    不过前者很快就会意识到，它们离不开后者的肆意挥霍。
22. 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。
23. Fourth, the greatest risk of sovereign credit crises comes not from profligacy but slow growth and deflation.
    第四，主权信贷危机的最大风险并非来自肆意挥霍，而是来自增长缓慢和通缩。
24. That said, US fiscal profligacy will push the dollar risk premium higher over time.
    这就是说，随着时间的推移，美国财政的大幅扩张将推高美元的风险溢价。
25. Since any subsidy distorts decisions towards greater profligacy, government debt will probably swell, possibly to unsustainable levels.
    由于任何补贴都可能扭曲政府决策，令其更加倾向于挥霍，政府债务可能会膨胀，乃至上升至不可持续的水平。
26. 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。
27. German anger at Greece's profligacy could easily delay the cash it would need should bond markets close.
    但德国不满于希腊的肆意挥霍，这很有可能拖延救助资金的发放从而导致债券市场关闭。
28. Surplus countries often enjoy contrasting their prudent selves with the profligacy of others.
    顺差国家通常喜欢将自身的节俭与其它国家的铺张浪费进行对比。
29. Maybe the tide will reverse, now that America has been laid low yet again by the profligacy of its citizens.
    这股潮流或许会逆转&既然美国已再一次被国民的肆意挥霍挫伤了元气。不过这也难说。

noun

1. dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

   Synonym:    dissipationdissolutionlicentiousnesslooseness

2. the trait of spending extravagantly

   Synonym:    extravaganceprodigality