spendthrift
英 [ˈspendθrɪft]
美 [ˈspendθrɪft]
n. 花钱无度的人; 挥霍者
adj. 浪费的，奢侈的
复数：spendthrifts
BNC.34671 / COCA.29234
牛津词典
noun
- 花钱无度的人；挥霍者
a person who spends too much money or who wastes money
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 挥霍者;浪费金钱的人
If you call someone aspendthrift, you mean that they spend too much money.- Spendthriftis also an adjective.
- ...his father's spendthrift ways.
他父亲挥金如土
- Spendthriftis also an adjective.
英英释义
noun
- someone who spends money prodigally
adj
- recklessly wasteful
- prodigal in their expenditures
双语例句
- Bloom is a true emotional spendthrift who uses his feelings lavishly.
布卢姆是个真正的滥情者。 - The oil industry, given half a chance, is inefficient and spendthrift.
石油行业只要稍有机会就会变得低效和挥霍无度。 - Even so, the spendthrift cannot afford to wait for economic growth to pull their debt burdens down.
但即便如此，这个大手惯了的国家等不及用经济增长来减轻债务负担了。 - In the end, however, spendthrift consumers defied the government.
然而，结果是挥霍无度的消费者公然和政府作对。 - The money it subsequently saved was recycled back to the spendthrift West to underpin the easy credit that gave the world subprime mortgages and collateralised debt obligations.
亚洲后来节省下来的钱，都流回了挥霍的西方，为给世界带来次贷和债务抵押债券（cdo）的宽松信贷提供了资金支持。 - But as those banks start blowing up and its economy shrinks, Spain will look more like its spendthrift southern European neighbor.
但如果西班牙的银行开始破产，经济开始萎缩，它就会变得跟南面这位挥霍无度的欧洲邻居没什么两样。 - Spendthrift, who had wasted his fortune, and had nothing left but the clothes in which he stood, saw a swallow one fine day in early spring.
有一个败家子，已挥霍完他所有的财产，就剩下身上穿的衣服了。早春的一个晴天，他看到了一只燕子。 - And unless your spouse is a complete spendthrift, compromising is a heck of a lot cheaper than a divorce.
妥协的代价总比离婚要低，除非你的另一半根本就是一个挥霍无度的人。 - One of Turan's complaints: "All that money also allowed spendthrift Spider-Man3 to acquire too many villains" including an egomaniacal Spider-Man alter ego himself.
图兰也抱怨道“所有那些投资金促使挥霍无度的《蜘蛛侠3》请来了太多的恶棍”，其中包括一个转变成极端利己分子的蜘蛛侠。 - How long will emerging economies continue to finance america's spendthrift habits?
新兴经济体还会为美国的挥霍无度埋单多久？