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

• 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。
• He accused the Council of being spendthrift.
  他指控委员会挥钱财。
• He disowned his spendthrift son.
  他与挥金如土的儿子脱离父子关系。
• The spendthrift son had once again pulled a fast one on his tight-fisted father.
  那个浪子又一次设计欺骗他吝啬的父亲。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• My mother warned me about marrying a spendthrift.
  我妈妈告诫我，不要与挥霍金钱的人结婚。
• If anything, it is Beijing some of whose officials now privately boast they have nothing at all to learn from the Great Spendthrift that has the upper hand.
  总之，北京占了上风。中国某些官员现在私下夸耀，美国这个大挥霍者根本没有什么值得他们学习的。