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

• One of Turan's complaints: "All that money also allowed spendthrift Spider-Man3 to acquire too many villains" including an egomaniacal Spider-Man alter ego himself.
  图兰也抱怨道“所有那些投资金促使挥霍无度的《蜘蛛侠3》请来了太多的恶棍”，其中包括一个转变成极端利己分子的蜘蛛侠。
• 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；
• The spendthrift son had once again pulled a fast one on his tight-fisted father.
  那个浪子又一次设计欺骗他吝啬的父亲。
• 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。
• He disowned his spendthrift son.
  他与挥金如土的儿子脱离父子关系。
• 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。
• The money it subsequently saved was recycled back to the spendthrift West to underpin the easy credit that gave the world subprime mortgages and collateralised debt obligations.
  亚洲后来节省下来的钱，都流回了挥霍的西方，为给世界带来次贷和债务抵押债券（cdo）的宽松信贷提供了资金支持。
• 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。
• Bloom is a true emotional spendthrift who uses his feelings lavishly.
  布卢姆是个真正的滥情者。
• 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。