profligacy

英 [ˈprɒflɪɡəsi]

美 [ˈprɑːflɪɡəsi]

n.  挥霍; 浪费

BNC.34527 / COCA.33795

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 挥霍；浪费
  Profligacyis the spending of too much money or the using of too much of something.
  1. ...the continuing profligacy of certain states.
     某些州持续存在的肆意挥霍现象

英英释义

noun

• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
  Synonym:dissipationdissolutionlicentiousnesslooseness
• the trait of spending extravagantly
  Synonym:extravaganceprodigality

双语例句

• There may be a way to combat this credit-card in-duced profligacy.
  可能会有方法来抑制这种信用卡肆意消费。
• IN GERMAN EYES this crisis is all about profligacy.
  在德国人看来，这场危机全因挥霍而起。
• That said, US fiscal profligacy will push the dollar risk premium higher over time.
  这就是说，随着时间的推移，美国财政的大幅扩张将推高美元的风险溢价。
• Thus Scotland would have an incentive towards profligacy that the rest of the UK would not.
  因此，苏格兰有动机趋向挥霍，英国其余地区则没有。
• Equally predictably, the surplus countries see things differently, and blame the profligacy and the debt addiction of the debtor countries.
  同样可以预见的是，盈余国家的视角会有所不同，将问题归咎于债务国的铺张浪费和借债上瘾。
• German anger at Greece's profligacy could easily delay the cash it would need should bond markets close.
  但德国不满于希腊的肆意挥霍，这很有可能拖延救助资金的发放从而导致债券市场关闭。
• They say Europe needs a lot more fiscal profligacy if it is to bring unemployment down.
  他们表示，如果要降低失业率，欧洲需要更多的财政挥霍。
• Many Latin American countries have also shaken off the fiscal and current account profligacy for which the region was once famous, and commodity exporters across the emerging world have benefited from the big rise in food, oil and metals prices.
  许多拉美国家也已经摆脱肆意挥霍财政和经常账户资金的曾有恶名，并且新兴世界的所有大宗商品出口者都已从食品、石油及金属价格的大幅上涨中受益。
• Profligacy is the new prudence.
  挥霍应该是一种新式的审慎。
• Fourth, the greatest risk of sovereign credit crises comes not from profligacy but slow growth and deflation.
  第四，主权信贷危机的最大风险并非来自肆意挥霍，而是来自增长缓慢和通缩。