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
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.- Spendthriftis also an adjective.
- ...his father's spendthrift ways.
他父亲挥金如土
- Spendthriftis also an adjective.
英英释义
noun
- someone who spends money prodigally
adj
- recklessly wasteful
- prodigal in their expenditures
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - As a good manager, he would put a stop to such spendthrift courses.
他既然是一个善于经理钱财的人，就应当阻止这种浪费的行径。 - What a spendthrift! All the money he makes goes on new ears.
他真是个花钱如流水的人！挣的钱都用来购置新车。 - 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。 - And he is scathing about the spendthrift ways of the Republican party after 2000-suggesting that it deserved to lose the 2006 midterm elections.
他对共和党在2000年之后大肆挥霍的做法进行了严厉批评&暗指共和党在2006年中期选举中失利，也是应得的下场。 - He accused the Council of being spendthrift.
他指控委员会挥钱财。 - If you are a spendthrift, you set a poor example that others will copy – with the company's money.
如果你大手大脚，就会为别人树立一个效仿的坏榜样&用公司的钱。 - From China's perspective, Mr Obama's emergency measures to stimulate the US economy and persuade Americans to spend their way out of recession smack of re-creating the spendthrift ways that triggered the crisis in the first place.
在中国看来，奥巴马刺激美国经济以及劝说国人通过消费摆脱衰退的紧急措施，都带着点重蹈覆辙的意味，因为最先引发这场危机的，正是大肆挥霍的消费方式。