spendthrift

英 [ˈspendθrɪft]

美 [ˈspendθrɪft]

n.  花钱无度的人; 挥霍者
adj.  浪费的，奢侈的

复数：spendthrifts　

GRE

BNC.34671 / COCA.29234

牛津词典

noun

• 花钱无度的人；挥霍者
  a person who spends too much money or who wastes money

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 挥霍者;浪费金钱的人
  If you call someone aspendthrift, you mean that they spend too much money.
  1. Spendthriftis also an adjective.
     
  2. ...his father's spendthrift ways.
     他父亲挥金如土

英英释义

noun

• someone who spends money prodigally
  Synonym:spend-allspenderscattergood

adj

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

双语例句

• If anything, it is Beijing some of whose officials now privately boast they have nothing at all to learn from the Great Spendthrift that has the upper hand.
  总之，北京占了上风。中国某些官员现在私下夸耀，美国这个大挥霍者根本没有什么值得他们学习的。
• He disowned his spendthrift son.
  他与挥金如土的儿子脱离父子关系。
• Everybody knows the US dollar is in decline, but China has to keep buying US treasury bills-using the Chinese people's hard-earned money to foot the bill for the spendthrift America.
  面对人人皆知的「没落中的美元」，中国还要动用外汇储备不断买入美国债券，广大中国人民胼手胝足、辛勤所得，就这样替挥霍无度的美国埋单。
• My father tells me I'm too much of a spendthrift.
  我父亲说我太浪费了。
• My mother always told me not to be a spendthrift.
  我母亲经常告诉我不大手大脚。
• Bloom is a true emotional spendthrift who uses his feelings lavishly.
  布卢姆是个真正的滥情者。
• And he is scathing about the spendthrift ways of the Republican party after 2000-suggesting that it deserved to lose the 2006 midterm elections.
  他对共和党在2000年之后大肆挥霍的做法进行了严厉批评&暗指共和党在2006年中期选举中失利，也是应得的下场。
• Every year the avenue is more lustrously paved with the gold of a million spendthrift tourists from mainland China.
  每年都会有大量来自中国内地的游客，他们挥金如土，给条大街撒下的黄金让它更加炫目。
• He accused the Council of being spendthrift.
  他指控委员会挥钱财。
• The oil industry, given half a chance, is inefficient and spendthrift.
  石油行业只要稍有机会就会变得低效和挥霍无度。