profligate
常考释义
1.挥霍的;浪费的using money, time, materials, etc. in a careless way
profligate spending恣意挥霍的开支
But avoiding the sort of profligate spending of the US and UK has not saved Japan, Germany and China from credit bust fallout.
但是,避免美英等国那种大肆消费习惯,并未使日本、德国和中国免受信贷萧条的冲击。
Even where troubled euro-zone countries had not been profligate, they have been running unsustainable current-account deficits.
即使在欧元区的那些没有过度透支的问题国家里,他们也存在着不可持续的经常账户赤字。
Meanwhile, in the other group there was little inclination either to profligate spending or to good works.
与此同时,在另外一个小组中却很少发现有肆意挥霍或致力于善行的倾向。
The profligate glory days of limitless water everywhere seem to be over.
那些大肆挥霍水的日子将一去不返。
Mr. Jackson appears to have been guilty of profligate spending and reckless indifference to his financial affairs.
杰克逊似乎挥霍成性,同时对自己的财务也漠不关心。
The Germans want a different sort of centralisation, built on rules to punish the profligate.
德国人需要的是一种不同的集权制,它建立在惩罚挥霍的基础上。
It must have, but reining in such a profligate program that subsidizes idleness is an idea that makes sense.
一定会的,但是控制这样一个为失业补贴的浪费项目是有意义的。
Voters in the donor country would be outraged if the rewards of their thrift were used to rescue the profligate.
出资国选民若得知其节俭成果被用于援救那些奢侈浪费者,必将愤怒不已。
Such promises, though necessary to convince the prudent to rely on the fund, will however tempt some countries to run profligate policies.
这种保证虽然对于劝说谨慎者依赖IMF尤其必要,但却会诱使一些国家恣意挥霍。
German public opinion is firmly set against dipping into the public purse to help the profligate Greeks.
德国舆论坚决反对使用其国库的钱来帮助挥霍的希腊人。
She recognises the deep hostility of her voters to big fiscal transfers to weaker, more profligate euro-zone countries.
她意识到她的选民对将巨大的资金转移到更弱的、更挥霍的欧元区国家有着深深的敌意。
All of the Western religions begin with the notion of Eden, and descend through a kind of profligate present, to a very ugly future.
西方所有的宗教都是始于伊甸园这个概念,然后走过放荡的现今,直向一个极其丑恶的未来。
But it also reflects a new-found determination by the bloc to get its hands dirty fixing the fiscal problems of its profligate members.
但这一举动也反映出欧元区一种新的决心:不惜给自己惹上麻烦,也要解决成员国因花销无度而产生的财政问题。
Much of the money that fueled the speculative boom came from profligate Spanish banks.
在助推投机性繁荣的资金当中,有许多来自肆意挥霍的西班牙银行。
He is also rumoured to have struggled with significant financial difficulties caused by his profligate spending.
他也有传言说,大量的财政困境所造成的种种困难他挥霍无度。
Granted, Merkel has been hamstrung by voters who are in no mood to see their taxes diverted to profligate neighbors.
当然,默克尔的决定被德国选民影响,德国选民不想看到自己交的税被用在一贯奢侈浪费的邻国身上。
That, too, is a chance for the new government to show that it is not as profligate as its opponents have claimed.
但这对新政府也是一个机会,可以表明他们并不是如其对手所谴责的那样恣意挥霍。
Profligate deficit countries may have created these viruses. They are not the most vulnerable to it.
创造出这些病毒的或许是挥霍无度的赤字国,但它们却并非最容易受到冲击的。
The point of this profligate eye candy?
这些点子都是些挥霍眼球的糖果吗?
All fell back to make way for the sufferers; and all, even the very rudest and most profligate , were struck with shame and silence.
群众立即后退,给这两个受苦人让路;连最粗野,最浪荡的人也感到难为情,静了下来。
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