prodigal

英 [ˈprɒdɪɡl]

美 [ˈprɑːdɪɡl]

adj.  浪费的; 挥霍的; 大手大脚的
n.  浪费者; 浪子; [动]军曹鱼

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BNC.19816 / COCA.19847

习惯用语

adj.

the/a prodigal (son)
• 回头的浪子；改邪归正的人
  a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home

牛津词典

adj.

• 浪费的；挥霍的；大手大脚的
  too willing to spend money or waste time, energy or materials

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 浪子回头的
  You can describe someone as aprodigalson or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person.
  1. ...the parable of the prodigal son.
     关于浪子回头的寓言
  2. Prodigalis also a noun.
     
  3. ...the prodigal had returned.
     浪子回头了。
• ADJ 挥霍的；浪费的；奢侈的
  Someone who behaves in aprodigalway spends a lot of money carelessly without thinking about what will happen when they have none left.
  1. Prodigal habits die hard.
     大手大脚的习惯很难改掉。

英英释义

noun

• a recklessly extravagant consumer
  Synonym:profligatesquanderer

adj

• recklessly wasteful
  1. prodigal in their expenditures
  Synonym:extravagantprofligatespendthrift

双语例句

• Just as the father did not condemn the prodigal for his wanderings, neither did he become angry with his second son's bitterness and jealousy.
  正如父亲没有谴责他流浪的浪子，他也没有成为他的第二个儿子的痛苦和嫉妒愤怒。
• That lack of understanding and his self-righteous stance had separated him from his father just as much as the prodigal's misguided wanderings had done.
  这种理解和他的自我的正义立场没有脱离过他的父亲一样，浪子的误导他做了很多流浪。
• I hope there's a fatted calf awaiting the return of the prodigal.
  我真希望这儿有只肥牛腿等着我们回来。
• He has been prodigal of the money left by his parents.
  他已挥霍掉他父母留下的钱。
• The old man cast off his prodigal son and disinherited him.
  老人断绝了与他的不肖儿子的关系，并剥夺了他的继承权。
• A crowd of children came and were very happy to hear stories ( I brought the storybooks of Luke, the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son, etc).
  一群小孩子聚集，他们很乐意听故事（我带了路得，好撒玛利亚人和浪子回家等故事书）。
• He also taught us the example of the Father in the Prodigal Son.
  他亦利用浪子回头比喻中父亲的榜样来训导我们。
• Only then did the prodigal come to understand that nothing had changed, nothing had been lost, nothing had destroyed his identity or his father's love.
  只有这样做了浪子认识到，什么都没有改变，什么也没有失去，什么都没有毁掉了他的身份和他父亲的爱。
• The genius in his works, in his deeds, is necessarily a prodigal.
  创作里的天才，行为上定是个挥霍者。
• Do not provoke prodigal son of arts, culture, youth and middle-aged man.
  不要招惹浪子、文艺青年和中年男子。