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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

      adj

      双语例句

      • My mother always told me not to be a spendthrift.
        我母亲经常告诉我不大手大脚。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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?
      • 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。
      • 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。