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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

      adj

      双语例句

      • 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。
      • Bloom is a true emotional spendthrift who uses his feelings lavishly.
        布卢姆是个真正的滥情者。
      • 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。
      • Even so, the spendthrift cannot afford to wait for economic growth to pull their debt burdens down.
        但即便如此,这个大手惯了的国家等不及用经济增长来减轻债务负担了。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • My father tells me I'm too much of a spendthrift.
        我父亲说我太浪费了。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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;