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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

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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.
          1. ...the parable of the prodigal son.
            关于浪子回头的寓言
          2. Prodigalis also a noun.
          3. ...the prodigal had returned.
            浪子回头了。
        • 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.
          1. Prodigal habits die hard.
            大手大脚的习惯很难改掉。

        英英释义

        noun

        adj

        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?