adj.(形容词)

1. 放荡的
2. 浪费的
3. 挥霍的
4. 荒淫的
5. 不检点的
6. 堕落的
7. 浪荡的
8. 道德败坏

n.(名词)

1. 放荡者
2. 挥霍者
3. 浪子
4. 无赖
5. 浪荡公子
6. 享乐者

Noun:

1. a dissolute man in fashionable society

2. a recklessly extravagant consumer

Adjective:

1. recklessly wasteful;

   "prodigal in their expenditures"
   

2. unrestrained by convention or morality;

   "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"
   "deplorably dissipated and degraded"
   "riotous living"
   "fast women"
   

profligate spending

恣意挥霍的开支

...the most profligate consumer of energy in the world.

世界上能源挥霍最严重的国家

Thus the crisis punishes the frugal more than the profligate.

如此看来,危机对节俭者的惩罚,要比对恣意挥霍者更为严厉.

German public opinion is firmly set against 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.

But like all the most successful illicit traders, China is ideologically profligate in its relations.

就像那些成功的违法交易以一样, 中国正在享受这种关系带来的好处.

He is a careless profligate.

他是个粗枝大叶的浪荡子.

Yet they have something in common: both involve the profligate deployment of resources.

然而这些行为却有着一些共同之处: 它们都牵涉了大肆的资源挥霍.

It is not: the frugal depend on the profligate.

但事实并非如此: 节俭者要依靠挥霍者.

Lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man and is somehow a little profligate.

莉是个女孩,英俊的男人跟异国情调, 不知何故,有点挥霍无度.

Similarly Americans have been profligate in the handling of mineral resources.

同样的,美国在处理矿产资源方面亦多浪费.

He is wicked and profligate.

他厚颜无耻,道德败坏.

In her profligate life, she lost all sense of decency.

在她放荡的生活中, 她完全丧失了一个正常人的理智.

Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy.

他们挥霍的生活方式导致的破产.

Why do you bring your profligate companions here?

为什么你要把你那些酒肉朋友带到这里来 呢 ?

At a stroke, we would know who was profligate with company money and who was parsimonious.

这样我们一下子就能知道谁在恣意挥霍公司钱财,而谁节俭吝啬.

This young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water.

这个青年完全有可能成为十足的浪子.

The young profligate needs to be controlled.

他年少狂荡,需要管教!

The region's profligate economies will struggle for longer as austerity kicks in.

随着财政紧缩政策的出台,那些挥土如金的欧元国家可能将会挣扎更久.

As investors focus on that gap, the most profligate rich countries, such as Britain, will suffer.

投资者对此极为关注, 最为铺张浪费的发达国家, 比如英国, 将遭受沉重打击.

The Germans want a different sort of centralisation, built on rules to punish the profligate.

德国人希望另一种类型的中央集权, 它建立在对挥霍型政府进行惩罚的原则之上.

• The energy he..wasted with profligate disregard.

  出自：L. Deighton