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　

GRE

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.
  1. Spendthriftis also an adjective.
     
  2. ...his father's spendthrift ways.
     他父亲挥金如土

英英释义

noun

• someone who spends money prodigally
  Synonym:spend-allspenderscattergood

adj

• recklessly wasteful
  1. prodigal in their expenditures
  Synonym:extravagantprodigalprofligate

双语例句

• Every year the avenue is more lustrously paved with the gold of a million spendthrift tourists from mainland China.
  每年都会有大量来自中国内地的游客，他们挥金如土，给条大街撒下的黄金让它更加炫目。
• 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 relation of parent to child. He disowned his spendthrift son.
  父母对孩子之间的关系他与挥金如土的儿子脱离父子关系。
• 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。
• As a good manager, he would put a stop to such spendthrift courses.
  他既然是一个善于经理钱财的人，就应当阻止这种浪费的行径。
• Those that used to play are playing still, so spendthrift is life.
  常常在游戏的那些人，仍然还在那里游戏，生命总是如此地浪费。
• 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？
• But the bonanza also risks feeding some Brazilian vices: a spendthrift and corrupt political system;
  但是这一幸运之事也可能助长巴西某些社会恶习的滋生：一个挥霍无度并腐败的政体；
• 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。
• From China's perspective, Mr Obama's emergency measures to stimulate the US economy and persuade Americans to spend their way out of recession smack of re-creating the spendthrift ways that triggered the crisis in the first place.
  在中国看来，奥巴马刺激美国经济以及劝说国人通过消费摆脱衰退的紧急措施，都带着点重蹈覆辙的意味，因为最先引发这场危机的，正是大肆挥霍的消费方式。