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1 词典释义:
profligacy
时间: 2025-11-07 13:48:54
英 [ˈprɒflɪɡəsɪ]

n.放荡;荒淫;行为不检;极度浪费;恣意挥霍;

双语例句
  • The public seethed at the Banks' profligacy.

    大家对银行的挥霍强压着怒火。

  • Germany, like Spain, paid a heavy price for their profligacy.

    像西班牙一样,德国也为浪费机会付出沉重代价。

  • So why ask them to pay in unborn children for our profligacy?

    那么,为什么要求他们不生孩子来为我们的挥霍买单?

  • Or are they just kneeling at the feet of our wisdom of profligacy?

    还是说他们根本就只能匍匐于我们的挥霍无度?

  • This is because the profligacy diagnosis is incomplete, and thus misleading.

    这是因为把挥霍浪费作为诊断结果是不全面的、误导性的。

  • The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.

    这个产业已经成为谎言、秘密以及浪费纳税人钱财的代名词。

  • His profligacy is to be regarded kindly, for it is a sign of high spirits and noble birth.

    他的挥霍是被善意看待的,因为这被视为意气风发和出身高贵的标志。

  • Today, however, household profligacy, which underpins much of the other debt, has been the problem.

    而如今,支撑其他多数债务的家庭挥霍已经成为问题。

  • 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。

  • But experience from Chile to Switzerland suggests that the right budgetary girdles can restrain profligacy.

    但是从智利到瑞士的经验都证明力正确的预算约束可以限制过度挥霍浪费。

  • To German ears that sounds like reassuringly harsh punishment for Greece's fiddled accounts and profligacy.

    在德国人看来,这似乎是对希腊人篡改账目、肆意挥霍的严厉惩处,不禁心觉宽慰。

  • Germany and the EU's wealthy northern members are furious at Greece and reluctant to pay for its profligacy.

    德国和欧盟的富裕的北方成员对希腊表示愤怒而不愿为其肆意挥霍买单。

  • You intend to fill up the cup of disobedience and profligacy by forming a low and disgraceful marriage?

    你存心拿玷辱门庭的婚姻来把忤逆和荒淫的杯子注满吗?

  • Some of the outrage is understandable - who does not believe that profligacy in the US was at the heart of the crisis?

    其中的一些愤怒是可以理解的——谁不认为危机的核心是美国的挥霍无度?

  • Maybe the tide will reverse, now that America has been laid low yet again by the profligacy of its citizens. But don't bet on it.

    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。

  • Yet neither the European Commission nor the markets can fix the euro's deeper problem, which does not lie in fiscal profligacy.

    然而不管是欧洲委员会还是市场都无法解决欧元的深层次问题,而这个问题并不是因为财政挥霍而生。

  • Profligacy is the new prudence. But in Asia, where saving has long been a self-evident virtue, that message has yet to catch on.

    挥霍应该是一种新式的审慎。但在长久以来一直把节俭当作一种不言而喻的美德的亚洲,这一观点还未盛行。

  • Such profligacy would make the contributions of early farmers large enough to have an effect on worldwide levels of greenhouse gases.

    如此的肆意耕作便得早期农民足以影响全球温室气体的含量。

  • Germany, the European Central Bank (ECB) and many others diagnose today's mess as stemming primarily from profligacy on the periphery.

    德国、欧洲央行(ecb)和其他人的诊定是说今天的乱局主要是由于在周边的挥霍。

  • The king of pop was also the king of profligacy, spending his final years fending off creditors in spite of prodigious earnings over four decades.

    流行音乐之王同时也是恣意挥霍之王,尽管40年来收入惊人,但他生命的最后几年却是在躲避债主的日子里度过的。

  • Surveys show that most Germans balk at the idea of their country paying for the profligacy of another country, albeit a fellow EU member state.

    调查显示,大部分德国人都不支持自己的国家为另一个国家的浪费买单的想法,即使同是欧盟成员国。

  • Profligacy, is to take out the things they do not cherish and share; Generous, is to bring out their most precious things to share with people.

    挥霍,就是把自己不珍惜的东西拿出来与人分享;慷慨,就是把自己最珍贵的东西拿出来与人分享。

  • Any promise, tacit or otherwise, of a bail-out by others would only encourage more profligacy (a view that mirrors Ford's initial stance towards New York).

    任何对救助的承诺,心照不宣的或不是,都只会鼓励更多的浪费(看看福特最初的相对纽约的位置)。

  • Puritan ghosts still whisper their warnings against profligacy in my part of the world, and I certainly hope that more Americans live within their means.

    清教思想的魂灵仍旧在人们耳畔切切私语,告诫人们不要耽于这世俗的穷奢极欲,我也希望有更多的美国人不要想着去过他们负担不起的生活。

  • 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。

  • With its once-mighty Banks, RBS and HBOS, the heart of the Scottish capital's financial industry, brought low by reckless profligacy, the problems look deep.

    加上苏格兰首都金融业的核心、曾经辉煌的银行——苏格兰皇家银行和苏格兰哈利法克斯银行被肆意的挥霍拖垮,看来问题根源深刻。

近义词
n. 肆意挥霍;放荡;浪费