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
牛津词典
adj.
- 浪费的;挥霍的;大手大脚的
too willing to spend money or waste time, energy or materials
柯林斯词典
- 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.- ...the parable of the prodigal son.
关于浪子回头的寓言 - Prodigalis also a noun.
- ...the prodigal had returned.
浪子回头了。
- ...the parable of the prodigal son.
- 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.- Prodigal habits die hard.
大手大脚的习惯很难改掉。
- Prodigal habits die hard.
英英释义
noun
- a recklessly extravagant consumer
adj
- recklessly wasteful
- prodigal in their expenditures
双语例句
- A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
[谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。 - He has been prodigal of the money left by his parents.
他已挥霍掉他父母留下的钱。 - I hope there's a fatted calf awaiting the return of the prodigal.
我真希望这儿有只肥牛腿等着我们回来。 - 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。 - He was our prodigal son, and we watched him grow up all over the world, but knew that his heart was always here, at home.
他是我们的浪子,我们看着他成长,足迹遍布世界,但我们知道他的心始终在这里,在故乡。 - Just as the father did not condemn the prodigal for his wanderings, neither did he become angry with his second son's bitterness and jealousy.
正如父亲没有谴责他流浪的浪子,他也没有成为他的第二个儿子的痛苦和嫉妒愤怒。 - 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。 - Are you going to kill the fatted calf for the prodigal son, Jack?
杰克,浪子回家,你准备宰杀那头小肥牛吗? - Are you a prodigal, a pharisee or a servant?
你是浪子,是法利赛人还是仆人? - I am determined, I really like the back of a prodigal son, back home, back to my father's side.
我决心,我要像一个真正回头的浪子,回到家里,回到我父亲的身边。