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
- 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。 - My father tells me I'm too much of a spendthrift.
我父亲说我太浪费了。 - The money it subsequently saved was recycled back to the spendthrift West to underpin the easy credit that gave the world subprime mortgages and collateralised debt obligations.
亚洲后来节省下来的钱,都流回了挥霍的西方,为给世界带来次贷和债务抵押债券(cdo)的宽松信贷提供了资金支持。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - My mother always told me not to be a spendthrift.
我母亲经常告诉我不大手大脚。 - 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? - He disowned his spendthrift son.
他与挥金如土的儿子脱离父子关系。 - Even so, the spendthrift cannot afford to wait for economic growth to pull their debt burdens down.
但即便如此,这个大手惯了的国家等不及用经济增长来减轻债务负担了。