单词：profligate
n. 放荡者, 享乐者
n a recklessly extravagant consumer
s recklessly wasteful
s unrestrained by convention or morality
考试类型：[GRE]
profligate的用法和样例：
例句
- We both know that he has been profligate in every sense of the world.我们都知道他已变成不折不扣的淫棍。
- These profligate sons of the rich used to get away with all sorts of crimes.这些纨绔子弟犯下种种罪行，但常能逍遥法外。
- Similarly Americans have been profligate in the handling of mineral resources.同样的，美国在处理矿产资源方面亦多浪费。
- Thus the crisis punishes the frugal more than the profligate.如此看来，危机对节俭者的惩罚，要比对恣意挥霍者更为严厉。
- Why do you bring your profligate companions here?为什么你要把你那些酒肉朋友带到这里来呢?
经典引文
The energy he..wasted with profligate disregard.
出自：L. Deighton
- baggage行李
- abandoned被抛弃的
- dissolute放荡的
- spendthrift浪费的人
- extravagant奢侈的
- wasteful浪费的
- reckless鲁莽的
- decadent堕落的
- licentious放荡的
- immoral不道德的
- wicked坏的
- shameless无耻的
- prodigal挥霍的
- libertine性行为放纵者...
- debauched堕落的
- squanderer浪费者
- riotous暴乱的
- rakehell浪子
- degenerate退化
- dissipated驱散，消散（动词diss...
- rake耙子
- rip撕裂
- blood血
- degraded被贬低的
- fast快的
- roue放荡者
单词：profligate 相关文章
21If a man is found slain, lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him, 2your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns. 3Then the el
申命记
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential mo
英语美文
Mario Draghi defended negative rates in a speech to the legislative assembly in the Netherlands. Mario Draghi在荷兰立法会上的一次演说中为负利率辩护。 It was a rare trip to a national parliament by the president of the European Cen
经济学人商业系列
The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, likes to compare the euro zone to a house in need of repair. 欧洲委员会主席让-克洛德容克喜欢将欧元区比作一幢需要修补的房子。 Fix the roof, he counsels, whil
经济学人财经系列
The current-account deficits in the euro zone's crisis countries were of the worrying kind. That they have shrunk or reversed is comforting. 欧元区危机国家的经常账户赤字是属于让人担心的那一种。他们的赤字已有收缩，趋
经济学人财经系列
下面是英语六级写作美文：知识与美德，请考生赏析。 Knowledge and Virtue Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy
四六级写作指导