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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He wrote of this darkest period in life, when he referred to his father as "the Prodigal Father," in David Copperfield.
他在《大.科波菲尔》称父亲为「那挥霍的父亲」,说的就是这段他一生最黑暗的日子。 - 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。 - He has been prodigal of the money left by his parents.
他已挥霍掉他父母留下的钱。 - 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。 - A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
[谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。 - , and the return of the prodigal co-founder, Jack Dorsey, as chairman and head of product.
,以及联合创始人、放荡不羁的杰克•多西回归公司,担任董事长和产品主管等等,不一而足。 - Are you a prodigal, a pharisee or a servant?
你是浪子,是法利赛人还是仆人?