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

• someone who spends money prodigally
  Synonym:spend-allspenderscattergood

adj

• recklessly wasteful
  1. prodigal in their expenditures
  Synonym:extravagantprodigalprofligate

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。
• 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。
• But the bonanza also risks feeding some Brazilian vices: a spendthrift and corrupt political system;
  但是这一幸运之事也可能助长巴西某些社会恶习的滋生：一个挥霍无度并腐败的政体；
• Every year the avenue is more lustrously paved with the gold of a million spendthrift tourists from mainland China.
  每年都会有大量来自中国内地的游客，他们挥金如土，给条大街撒下的黄金让它更加炫目。
• 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。
• But as those banks start blowing up and its economy shrinks, Spain will look more like its spendthrift southern European neighbor.
  但如果西班牙的银行开始破产，经济开始萎缩，它就会变得跟南面这位挥霍无度的欧洲邻居没什么两样。
• Bloom is a true emotional spendthrift who uses his feelings lavishly.
  布卢姆是个真正的滥情者。
• 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。
• 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。
• My father tells me I'm too much of a spendthrift.
  我父亲说我太浪费了。