spendthrift

英 [ˈspendθrɪft] 美 [ˈspendθrɪft]

n.  花钱无度的人; 挥霍者
adj.  浪费的,奢侈的

复数:spendthrifts

GRE

BNC.34671 / COCA.29234



牛津词典

noun

  1. 花钱无度的人;挥霍者
    a person who spends too much money or who wastes money

    柯林斯词典

    1. N-COUNT 挥霍者;浪费金钱的人
      If you call someone a spendthrift, you mean that they spend too much money.
      1. Spendthrift is also an adjective.
      2. ...his father's spendthrift ways.
        他父亲挥金如土

    双语例句

    1. But as those banks start blowing up and its economy shrinks, Spain will look more like its spendthrift southern European neighbor.
      但如果西班牙的银行开始破产,经济开始萎缩,它就会变得跟南面这位挥霍无度的欧洲邻居没什么两样。
    2. If you're a spendthrift picking amate, you might unconsciously be looking for help reining in badspending habits.
      如果你花钱大手大脚,在选择伴侣时可能就不由自主地渴望控制不良支出习惯。
    3. And unless your spouse is a complete spendthrift, compromising is a heck of a lot cheaper than a divorce.
      妥协的代价总比离婚要低,除非你的另一半根本就是一个挥霍无度的人。
    4. One of Turan's complaints: "All that money also allowed spendthrift Spider-Man3 to acquire too many villains" including an egomaniacal Spider-Man alter ego himself.
      图兰也抱怨道“所有那些投资金促使挥霍无度的《蜘蛛侠3》请来了太多的恶棍”,其中包括一个转变成极端利己分子的蜘蛛侠。
    5. Those that used to play are playing still, so spendthrift is life.
      常常在游戏的那些人,仍然还在那里游戏,生命总是如此地浪费。
    6. The oil industry, given half a chance, is inefficient and spendthrift.
      石油行业只要稍有机会就会变得低效和挥霍无度。
    7. In the end, however, spendthrift consumers defied the government.
      然而,结果是挥霍无度的消费者公然和政府作对。
    8. The relation of parent to child. He disowned his spendthrift son.
      父母对孩子之间的关系他与挥金如土的儿子脱离父子关系。
    9. But the bonanza also risks feeding some Brazilian vices: a spendthrift and corrupt political system;
      但是这一幸运之事也可能助长巴西某些社会恶习的滋生:一个挥霍无度并腐败的政体;
    10. Bloom is a true emotional spendthrift who uses his feelings lavishly.
      布卢姆是个真正的滥情者。
    11. Everybody knows the US dollar is in decline, but China has to keep buying US treasury bills-using the Chinese people's hard-earned money to foot the bill for the spendthrift America.
      面对人人皆知的「没落中的美元」,中国还要动用外汇储备不断买入美国债券,广大中国人民胼手胝足、辛勤所得,就这样替挥霍无度的美国埋单。
    12. Even so, the spendthrift cannot afford to wait for economic growth to pull their debt burdens down.
      但即便如此,这个大手惯了的国家等不及用经济增长来减轻债务负担了。
    13. How long will emerging economies continue to finance america's spendthrift habits?
      新兴经济体还会为美国的挥霍无度埋单多久?
    14. My mother always told me not to be a spendthrift.
      我母亲经常告诉我不大手大脚。
    15. What a spendthrift! All the money he makes goes on new ears.
      他真是个花钱如流水的人!挣的钱都用来购置新车。
    16. The money it subsequently saved was recycled back to the spendthrift West to underpin the easy credit that gave the world subprime mortgages and collateralised debt obligations.
      亚洲后来节省下来的钱,都流回了挥霍的西方,为给世界带来次贷和债务抵押债券(cdo)的宽松信贷提供了资金支持。
    17. And he is scathing about the spendthrift ways of the Republican party after 2000-suggesting that it deserved to lose the 2006 midterm elections.
      他对共和党在2000年之后大肆挥霍的做法进行了严厉批评&暗指共和党在2006年中期选举中失利,也是应得的下场。
    18. He disowned his spendthrift son.
      他与挥金如土的儿子脱离父子关系。
    19. From China's perspective, Mr Obama's emergency measures to stimulate the US economy and persuade Americans to spend their way out of recession smack of re-creating the spendthrift ways that triggered the crisis in the first place.
      在中国看来,奥巴马刺激美国经济以及劝说国人通过消费摆脱衰退的紧急措施,都带着点重蹈覆辙的意味,因为最先引发这场危机的,正是大肆挥霍的消费方式。
    20. He accused the Council of being spendthrift.
      他指控委员会挥钱财。
    21. Every year the avenue is more lustrously paved with the gold of a million spendthrift tourists from mainland China.
      每年都会有大量来自中国内地的游客,他们挥金如土,给条大街撒下的黄金让它更加炫目。
    22. If you are a spendthrift, you set a poor example that others will copy – with the company's money.
      如果你大手大脚,就会为别人树立一个效仿的坏榜样&用公司的钱。
    23. Spendthrift, who had wasted his fortune, and had nothing left but the clothes in which he stood, saw a swallow one fine day in early spring.
      有一个败家子,已挥霍完他所有的财产,就剩下身上穿的衣服了。早春的一个晴天,他看到了一只燕子。
    24. As a good manager, he would put a stop to such spendthrift courses.
      他既然是一个善于经理钱财的人,就应当阻止这种浪费的行径。
    25. My mother warned me about marrying a spendthrift.
      我妈妈告诫我,不要与挥霍金钱的人结婚。
    26. My father tells me I'm too much of a spendthrift.
      我父亲说我太浪费了。
    27. If anything, it is Beijing some of whose officials now privately boast they have nothing at all to learn from the Great Spendthrift that has the upper hand.
      总之,北京占了上风。中国某些官员现在私下夸耀,美国这个大挥霍者根本没有什么值得他们学习的。
    28. The spendthrift son had once again pulled a fast one on his tight-fisted father.
      那个浪子又一次设计欺骗他吝啬的父亲。

    英英释义

    noun

    1. someone who spends money prodigally

        Synonym:    spend-allspenderscattergood

      adj

      1. recklessly wasteful
        1. prodigal in their expenditures

        Synonym:    extravagantprodigalprofligate