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.- ...the continuing profligacy of certain states.
某些州持续存在的肆意挥霍现象
- ...the continuing profligacy of certain states.
英英释义
noun
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- the trait of spending extravagantly
双语例句
- Third, investors panicking about the eurozone or US profligacy had to buy something when selling euros and dollars.
第三，对欧元区或美国的挥霍感到恐慌的投资者们在抛售欧元和美元后，总得买点什么。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - But would not the puncturing of the balanced budget myth give the green light to vast government profligacy?
不过，打破预算平衡的神话会不会为政府大肆挥霍大开绿灯？ - 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。 - But if he is to tackle all or any of this, he must balance his plans with other savings or new revenues if his legacy is not to be one of profligacy and debt.
如果他想解决上述全部或部分问题，他必须用在其它地方省下来的钱，或者新的收入来为他的这些计划买单–如果他不希望自己留下的遗产是挥霍浪费或巨额债务的话。 - 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。 - 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。