profligacy

英 [ˈprɒflɪɡəsi]

美 [ˈprɑːflɪɡəsi]

n.  挥霍; 浪费

BNC.34527 / COCA.33795

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 挥霍；浪费
  Profligacyis 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

英英释义

noun

• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
  Synonym:dissipationdissolutionlicentiousnesslooseness
• the trait of spending extravagantly
  Synonym:extravaganceprodigality

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Profligacy is the new prudence.
  挥霍应该是一种新式的审慎。