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
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.- Spendthriftis also an adjective.
- ...his father's spendthrift ways.
他父亲挥金如土
- Spendthriftis also an adjective.
英英释义
noun
- someone who spends money prodigally
adj
- recklessly wasteful
- prodigal in their expenditures
双语例句
- Everybody knows the US dollar is in decline, but China has to keep buying US treasury bills-using the Chinese people's hard-earned money to foot the bill for the spendthrift America.
面对人人皆知的「没落中的美元」,中国还要动用外汇储备不断买入美国债券,广大中国人民胼手胝足、辛勤所得,就这样替挥霍无度的美国埋单。 - If you're a spendthrift picking amate, you might unconsciously be looking for help reining in badspending habits.
如果你花钱大手大脚,在选择伴侣时可能就不由自主地渴望控制不良支出习惯。 - He accused the Council of being spendthrift.
他指控委员会挥钱财。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He disowned his spendthrift son.
他与挥金如土的儿子脱离父子关系。 - One of Turan's complaints: "All that money also allowed spendthrift Spider-Man3 to acquire too many villains" including an egomaniacal Spider-Man alter ego himself.
图兰也抱怨道“所有那些投资金促使挥霍无度的《蜘蛛侠3》请来了太多的恶棍”,其中包括一个转变成极端利己分子的蜘蛛侠。 - Spendthrift, who had wasted his fortune, and had nothing left but the clothes in which he stood, saw a swallow one fine day in early spring.
有一个败家子,已挥霍完他所有的财产,就剩下身上穿的衣服了。早春的一个晴天,他看到了一只燕子。 - What a spendthrift! All the money he makes goes on new ears.
他真是个花钱如流水的人!挣的钱都用来购置新车。