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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

      • 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。