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
- They say Europe needs a lot more fiscal profligacy if it is to bring unemployment down.
他们表示，如果要降低失业率，欧洲需要更多的财政挥霍。 - Deficit countries cannot be expected to spend their way into bankruptcy, while surplus countries condemn as profligacy the spending from which their exporters benefit so much.
不可能指望赤字国家花钱花到破产，同时，顺差国家还在指责这是铺张浪费，尽管它们的出口企业从中获利丰厚。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - But would not the puncturing of the balanced budget myth give the green light to vast government profligacy?
不过，打破预算平衡的神话会不会为政府大肆挥霍大开绿灯？ - 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。 - But if he is to tackle all or any of this, he must balance his plans with other savings or new revenues if his legacy is not to be one of profligacy and debt.
如果他想解决上述全部或部分问题，他必须用在其它地方省下来的钱，或者新的收入来为他的这些计划买单–如果他不希望自己留下的遗产是挥霍浪费或巨额债务的话。 - The profligacy of the West shocked him.
西方的极度浪费使他震惊。 - Equally predictably, the surplus countries see things differently, and blame the profligacy and the debt addiction of the debtor countries.
同样可以预见的是，盈余国家的视角会有所不同，将问题归咎于债务国的铺张浪费和借债上瘾。