profligacy
英 [ˈprɒf.lɪ.ɡə.si]
美 [ˈprɑː.flɪ.ɡə.si]
- n. 肆意挥霍；放荡；浪费
英语词源
- profligacy (n.)
- 1670s, from profligate + -cy.
权威例句
- 1. Subsequently, this statement was quoted widely in the colony as an evidence of profligacy.
- 结果这句话成为肆意挥霍的一个例证在那块领地里传开了.
- 2. Recession, they reason, must be a penance for past profligacy.
- 经济衰退, 他们推断, 肯定是对过去大肆挥霍的赎罪.
- 3. Hardest of all will be finding the political will to curb profligacy.
- 真正的难题是缺少对打击挥霍浪费的政治意愿.
- 4. Recession, they reason a penance for past profligacy.
- 人们把衰退的原因归结为前期挥霍的报应.
- 5. There was tut - tutting about American profligacy.
- 中国对美国的肆意挥霍发出了不满的啧啧声.