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

• I am determined, I really like the back of a prodigal son, back home, back to my father's side.
  我决心，我要像一个真正回头的浪子，回到家里，回到我父亲的身边。
• Are you a prodigal, a pharisee or a servant?
  你是浪子，是法利赛人还是仆人？
• 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。
• He was our prodigal son, and we watched him grow up all over the world, but knew that his heart was always here, at home.
  他是我们的浪子，我们看着他成长，足迹遍布世界，但我们知道他的心始终在这里，在故乡。
• Your violence, Young prodigal, Is typical.
  你的暴力，年轻的浪子，是典型的无知表现。
• The teaching of the parable does not end, however, with the prodigal's return.
  该寓言教学并没有结束，但是，与浪子的归来。
• 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。
• The parables of the lost sheep and the prodigal son.
  有关迷途羔羊和浪子回头的寓言。
• Are you going to kill the fatted calf for the prodigal son, Jack?
  杰克，浪子回家，你准备宰杀那头小肥牛吗？
• He wrote of this darkest period in life, when he referred to his father as "the Prodigal Father," in David Copperfield.
  他在《大.科波菲尔》称父亲为「那挥霍的父亲」，说的就是这段他一生最黑暗的日子。