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profligacy

['prɔfliɡəsi]

n. 肆意挥霍；放荡；浪费

英文词源

profligacy (n.): 1670s, from profligate + -cy.

双语例句

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.