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
- 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。 - 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 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； - If you're a spendthrift picking amate, you might unconsciously be looking for help reining in badspending habits.
如果你花钱大手大脚，在选择伴侣时可能就不由自主地渴望控制不良支出习惯。 - In the end, however, spendthrift consumers defied the government.
然而，结果是挥霍无度的消费者公然和政府作对。 - 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。 - 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。 - Everybody knows the US dollar is in decline, but China has to keep buying US treasury bills-using the Chinese people's hard-earned money to foot the bill for the spendthrift America.
面对人人皆知的「没落中的美元」，中国还要动用外汇储备不断买入美国债券，广大中国人民胼手胝足、辛勤所得，就这样替挥霍无度的美国埋单。 - If anything, it is Beijing some of whose officials now privately boast they have nothing at all to learn from the Great Spendthrift that has the upper hand.
总之，北京占了上风。中国某些官员现在私下夸耀，美国这个大挥霍者根本没有什么值得他们学习的。 - 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。