profligacy
英 [ˈprɒflɪɡəsi]
美 [ˈprɑːflɪɡəsi]
n. 挥霍; 浪费
BNC.34527 / COCA.33795
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 挥霍；浪费
Profligacyis the spending of too much money or the using of too much of something.- ...the continuing profligacy of certain states.
某些州持续存在的肆意挥霍现象
- ...the continuing profligacy of certain states.
英英释义
noun
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- the trait of spending extravagantly
双语例句
- Many Latin American countries have also shaken off the fiscal and current account profligacy for which the region was once famous, and commodity exporters across the emerging world have benefited from the big rise in food, oil and metals prices.
许多拉美国家也已经摆脱肆意挥霍财政和经常账户资金的曾有恶名，并且新兴世界的所有大宗商品出口者都已从食品、石油及金属价格的大幅上涨中受益。 - That said, US fiscal profligacy will push the dollar risk premium higher over time.
这就是说，随着时间的推移，美国财政的大幅扩张将推高美元的风险溢价。 - The Gilded Age was one of extreme profligacy, both in business investment and sumptuous expenditure.
不管是商业投资、还是豪华消费，镀金时代（GildedAge）都算得上极度挥霍的时期之一。 - The former will soon discover they cannot do without the profligacy of the latter.
不过前者很快就会意识到，它们离不开后者的肆意挥霍。 - There was tut-tutting about American profligacy.
中国对美国的肆意挥霍发出了不满的啧啧声。 - But United punished them for their early profligacy in the most clinical of fashion.
但是曼联用最好的方式惩罚了他们的浪费。 - German anger at Greece's profligacy could easily delay the cash it would need should bond markets close.
但德国不满于希腊的肆意挥霍，这很有可能拖延救助资金的发放从而导致债券市场关闭。 - Fourth, the greatest risk of sovereign credit crises comes not from profligacy but slow growth and deflation.
第四，主权信贷危机的最大风险并非来自肆意挥霍，而是来自增长缓慢和通缩。 - There is more to the story than an angry collision between Greek profligacy and German moral superiority.
这件事不仅仅是希腊人的挥霍无度和德国人的道德优越感之间的迎头怒撞。 - Neither should we expect the "return" of American consumers indeed, we should worry at their reappearance, for what it says about both their rationality and a financial system that facilitates such profligacy.
我们也不应指望美国消费者的“回归”，实际上，他们回归才让人担忧，因为这既说明了他们的理性问题，也说明了金融体系为这种挥霍行为提供了方便。