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
- 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。 - 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； - 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。 - 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。 - As a good manager, he would put a stop to such spendthrift courses.
他既然是一个善于经理钱财的人，就应当阻止这种浪费的行径。 - My father tells me I'm too much of a spendthrift.
我父亲说我太浪费了。 - 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。 - One of Turan's complaints: "All that money also allowed spendthrift Spider-Man3 to acquire too many villains" including an egomaniacal Spider-Man alter ego himself.
图兰也抱怨道“所有那些投资金促使挥霍无度的《蜘蛛侠3》请来了太多的恶棍”，其中包括一个转变成极端利己分子的蜘蛛侠。 - 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。 - How long will emerging economies continue to finance america's spendthrift habits?
新兴经济体还会为美国的挥霍无度埋单多久？