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.- ...the continuing profligacy of certain states.
某些州持续存在的肆意挥霍现象
- ...the continuing profligacy of certain states.
英英释义
noun
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- the trait of spending extravagantly
双语例句
- China's overall surplus and America's overall deficit have less to do with the value of the yuan than with Chinese saving and American profligacy.
中国的全部顺差和美国的全部逆差同（人民币）元的价值的关联要小于同中国人储蓄和美国人挥霍的关联。 - 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。 - 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。 - There is more to the story than an angry collision between Greek profligacy and German moral superiority.
这件事不仅仅是希腊人的挥霍无度和德国人的道德优越感之间的迎头怒撞。 - Surplus countries often enjoy contrasting their prudent selves with the profligacy of others.
顺差国家通常喜欢将自身的节俭与其它国家的铺张浪费进行对比。 - 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。 - Maybe the tide will reverse, now that America has been laid low yet again by the profligacy of its citizens.
这股潮流或许会逆转&既然美国已再一次被国民的肆意挥霍挫伤了元气。不过这也难说。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。