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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - My father tells me I'm too much of a spendthrift.
我父亲说我太浪费了。 - 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。 - From China's perspective, Mr Obama's emergency measures to stimulate the US economy and persuade Americans to spend their way out of recession smack of re-creating the spendthrift ways that triggered the crisis in the first place.
在中国看来，奥巴马刺激美国经济以及劝说国人通过消费摆脱衰退的紧急措施，都带着点重蹈覆辙的意味，因为最先引发这场危机的，正是大肆挥霍的消费方式。 - 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。 - My mother always told me not to be a spendthrift.
我母亲经常告诉我不大手大脚。 - 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。