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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The profligacy of the West shocked him.
  西方的极度浪费使他震惊。
• 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。