prodigal

英 [ˈprɒdɪɡl]

美 [ˈprɑːdɪɡl]

adj. 浪费的; 挥霍的; 大手大脚的
n. 浪费者; 浪子; [动]军曹鱼

BNC.19816 / COCA.19847

习惯用语

adj.

the/a prodigal (son)

回头的浪子；改邪归正的人
a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home

adj.

ADJ 浪子回头的
You can describe someone as aprodigalson or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person.
1. ...the parable of the prodigal son.
  关于浪子回头的寓言
2. Prodigalis also a noun.
3. ...the prodigal had returned.
  浪子回头了。
ADJ 挥霍的；浪费的；奢侈的
Someone who behaves in aprodigalway spends a lot of money carelessly without thinking about what will happen when they have none left.
1. Prodigal habits die hard.
  大手大脚的习惯很难改掉。

noun

adj

recklessly wasteful
1. prodigal in their expenditures
Synonym:extravagantprofligatespendthrift

I was acting in a play called the return of the prodigal.
我当时正在《浪子回头》一剧中担任角色。
The old man cast off his prodigal son and disinherited him.
老人断绝了与他的不肖儿子的关系，并剥夺了他的继承权。
That lack of understanding and his self-righteous stance had separated him from his father just as much as the prodigal's misguided wanderings had done.
这种理解和他的自我的正义立场没有脱离过他的父亲一样，浪子的误导他做了很多流浪。
He has been prodigal of the money left by his parents.
他已挥霍掉他父母留下的钱。
Your violence, Young prodigal, Is typical.
你的暴力，年轻的浪子，是典型的无知表现。
All the family went to the airport to welcome home the prodigal son.
全家人都去机场迎接这个回头的浪子。
Do not provoke prodigal son of arts, culture, youth and middle-aged man.
不要招惹浪子、文艺青年和中年男子。
There have been rumours that he has been prodigal with company funds.
有谣言说他挥霍公司的资金。
Only then did the prodigal come to understand that nothing had changed, nothing had been lost, nothing had destroyed his identity or his father's love.
只有这样做了浪子认识到，什么都没有改变，什么也没有失去，什么都没有毁掉了他的身份和他父亲的爱。
The parables of the lost sheep and the prodigal son.
有关迷途羔羊和浪子回头的寓言。