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
- 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。 - The genius in his works, in his deeds, is necessarily a prodigal.
创作里的天才,行为上定是个挥霍者。 - A crowd of children came and were very happy to hear stories ( I brought the storybooks of Luke, the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son, etc).
一群小孩子聚集,他们很乐意听故事(我带了路得,好撒玛利亚人和浪子回家等故事书)。 - 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。 - There have been rumours that he has been prodigal with company funds.
有谣言说他挥霍公司的资金。 - He also taught us the example of the Father in the Prodigal Son.
他亦利用浪子回头比喻中父亲的榜样来训导我们。 - The teaching of the parable does not end, however, with the prodigal's return.
该寓言教学并没有结束,但是,与浪子的归来。 - 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。 - 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。 - Your violence, Young prodigal, Is typical.
你的暴力,年轻的浪子,是典型的无知表现。