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
- He accused the Council of being spendthrift.
他指控委员会挥钱财。 - And he is scathing about the spendthrift ways of the Republican party after 2000-suggesting that it deserved to lose the 2006 midterm elections.
他对共和党在2000年之后大肆挥霍的做法进行了严厉批评&暗指共和党在2006年中期选举中失利,也是应得的下场。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - And unless your spouse is a complete spendthrift, compromising is a heck of a lot cheaper than a divorce.
妥协的代价总比离婚要低,除非你的另一半根本就是一个挥霍无度的人。 - 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。 - 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。 - If you are a spendthrift, you set a poor example that others will copy – with the company's money.
如果你大手大脚,就会为别人树立一个效仿的坏榜样&用公司的钱。 - 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。