prodigal

英 [ˈprɒdɪɡl]

美 [ˈprɑːdɪɡl]

adj. 浪费的; 挥霍的; 大手大脚的
n. 浪费者; 浪子; [动]军曹鱼

BNC.19816 / COCA.19847

习惯用语

adj.

the/a prodigal (son)

回头的浪子；改邪归正的人
a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home

adj.

ADJ 浪子回头的
You can describe someone as aprodigalson or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person.
1. ...the parable of the prodigal son.
  关于浪子回头的寓言
2. Prodigalis also a noun.
3. ...the prodigal had returned.
  浪子回头了。
ADJ 挥霍的；浪费的；奢侈的
Someone who behaves in aprodigalway spends a lot of money carelessly without thinking about what will happen when they have none left.
1. Prodigal habits die hard.
  大手大脚的习惯很难改掉。

noun

adj

recklessly wasteful
1. prodigal in their expenditures
Synonym:extravagantprofligatespendthrift

A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
[谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。
Are you a prodigal, a pharisee or a servant?
你是浪子，是法利赛人还是仆人？
Only then did the prodigal come to understand that nothing had changed, nothing had been lost, nothing had destroyed his identity or his father's love.
只有这样做了浪子认识到，什么都没有改变，什么也没有失去，什么都没有毁掉了他的身份和他父亲的爱。
The teaching of the parable does not end, however, with the prodigal's return.
该寓言教学并没有结束，但是，与浪子的归来。
I was acting in a play called the return of the prodigal.
我当时正在《浪子回头》一剧中担任角色。
There have been rumours that he has been prodigal with company funds.
有谣言说他挥霍公司的资金。
Do not provoke prodigal son of arts, culture, youth and middle-aged man.
不要招惹浪子、文艺青年和中年男子。
He has been prodigal of the money left by his parents.
他已挥霍掉他父母留下的钱。
He also taught us the example of the Father in the Prodigal Son.
他亦利用浪子回头比喻中父亲的榜样来训导我们。
A prodigal who returns is more precious than gold.
浪子回头金不换。