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

• 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。
• But United punished them for their early profligacy in the most clinical of fashion.
  但是曼联用最好的方式惩罚了他们的浪费。
• Neither should we expect the "return" of American consumers indeed, we should worry at their reappearance, for what it says about both their rationality and a financial system that facilitates such profligacy.
  我们也不应指望美国消费者的“回归”，实际上，他们回归才让人担忧，因为这既说明了他们的理性问题，也说明了金融体系为这种挥霍行为提供了方便。
• Third, investors panicking about the eurozone or US profligacy had to buy something when selling euros and dollars.
  第三，对欧元区或美国的挥霍感到恐慌的投资者们在抛售欧元和美元后，总得买点什么。
• The former will soon discover they cannot do without the profligacy of the latter.
  不过前者很快就会意识到，它们离不开后者的肆意挥霍。
• But if he is to tackle all or any of this, he must balance his plans with other savings or new revenues if his legacy is not to be one of profligacy and debt.
  如果他想解决上述全部或部分问题，他必须用在其它地方省下来的钱，或者新的收入来为他的这些计划买单–如果他不希望自己留下的遗产是挥霍浪费或巨额债务的话。
• Deficit countries cannot be expected to spend their way into bankruptcy, while surplus countries condemn as profligacy the spending from which their exporters benefit so much.
  不可能指望赤字国家花钱花到破产，同时，顺差国家还在指责这是铺张浪费，尽管它们的出口企业从中获利丰厚。
• Since any subsidy distorts decisions towards greater profligacy, government debt will probably swell, possibly to unsustainable levels.
  由于任何补贴都可能扭曲政府决策，令其更加倾向于挥霍，政府债务可能会膨胀，乃至上升至不可持续的水平。
• 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。
• A few years ago most economists argued that the spectacle of poor countries bankrolling America's deficits was the perverse and unsustainable consequence of American profligacy.
  在几年前，大多数经济学都认为，穷国资助美国赤字的壮观景象是美国人肆意挥霍所产生的不正常也不可持续的结果。