spendthrift如何读

英:[ˈspendθrɪft]

美:[ˈspɛndˌθrɪft]

spendthrift是什么意思

n. (名词)
  1. 挥霍者,浪费者,挥霍无度的人
  2. <贬>放荡者,浪子,败家子
adj. (形容词)
  1. 挥霍的,浪费的,挥霍无度的
  2. 乱花钱的,奢侈的

spendthrift自然拼读

spend·thrift

spend thrIft

spendthrift变形

复数:spendthrifts

spendthrift词根

词根:spent

adj.

spent 耗尽了的;精疲力尽的

n.

spender 挥金如土的人;挥霍者;用钱的人

v.

spent 花费(spend的过去分词);浪费;耗费

spendthrift英英释义

noun

a person who spends improvidently or wastefully

adjective

given to spending money freely or foolishly : wasteful with money As spendthrift baby boomers retire, they will endeavor to turn their meager savings into maximum retirement income.—Jonathan Clements In newspaper op-eds, on television talk shows and at a recent hearing on Capitol Hill, critics have assailed public broadcasting as elitist, spendthrift and irrelevant in the cable era.—Betsy Carpenter

In advanced economies, austerity rules, with the wealthiest nations promising to mend their spendthrift ways.—Daniel Gross

spendthrift词源中文解释

"挥霍或不节俭的人",大约于1600年,源自 spend(动词)和 thrift(名词)的结合,意为“储蓄、利润、财富”。它取代了早期的 scattergood(1570年代)和 spend-all(1550年代),OED 列出了 dingthrift 作为另一种变体。从大约1600年开始用作形容词。相关词汇: Spendthrifty。

spendthrift词源英文解释

The first known use of spendthrift was in 1584

spendthrift儿童词典英英释义

spermnoun

semen

a mobile male gamete that has a long and thin or rounded head and a long thin tail that acts as a flagellum called alsospermatozoon, sperm cell

spentadjective

used up

drained of energy

spendthriftnoun

one who spends wastefully

spendthrift 例句

1 Sacrifice sheer consumer quantity in favor of quality spendthrifts?

2 There seem to be plenty of Russian-Americans who fit the niche; the producers didn’t have any difficulty recruiting a gaggle of vain, vulgar spendthrifts willing to hiss, preen and cry on cue for the camera.

3 He was deposed after months of political unrest directed at his administration, which was accused of being spendthrift and out of touch.

4 And the frustrations certainly aren’t new to those fans, who have watched this spendthrift organization reach the postseason just once in the past 22 years.

5 He affectionately recalls Wailer as a demanding spendthrift who refused to play Italy because that country had invaded Ethiopia in 1935.

6 I am not a spendthrift, for sure, but I haven’t been frugal either, and I sometimes feel guilty because I think maybe I should have been.

7 How can I persuade my parents not to be spendthrifts on our dime?

8 That she's a spendthrift and loves to gamble and entertain with extravagant parties.

9 With the spendthrift imagination of youth, he created miniature narratives for each étude that traversed multiple states of mind.

10 My father tells me I'm too much of a spendthrift.

我父亲说我太浪费了.

11 The reason massive stars are such spendthrifts is that, as we saw above, the rate of fusion depends very strongly on the star’s core temperature.

12 My mother warned me about marrying a spendthrift.

我妈妈告诫我,不要与挥霍金钱的人结婚。

13 Once aloof from the spendthrift ways of neighboring Dubai, Abu Dhabi — which, so far, has not experienced the unrest many Arab countries are facing — is now ticking off items on a five-star shopping list.

14 He was famous in a spendthrift industry for how careful he was with money, saving as soon as he began to earn, and making stock market investments.

15 Coby Bell, who plays the spendthrift wide receiver Jason Pitts, became a regular on “Burn Notice,” and Pooch Hall, who plays the rising star Derwin Davis, took a role on “Accidentally on Purpose.”

16 It tells in pictures the salutary tale of a man driven to madness by spendthrift folly.

17 They point to her call to remove voting rights from spendthrift euro-zone members and for the orderly insolvency of the worst offenders.

他们直指默克尔此前的一些声明。 该声明呼吁取消欧元区成员国中那些开支无度国家的选举权,并建议对那些严重触犯规则的欧盟成员国实行“有序破产”。

18 Two curmudgeonly old rivals, reclusive spendthrifts, are marching toward a showdown that a lot of people really wish wasn’t happening.

19 The lumpenconsumer isn't the spendthrift he used to be.

lumpenconsumer不是他过去那样的花钱无度的人。

20 The imagery of night versus day in “Tristan” also runs through the reign of Ludwig, who made that opera possible while also bankrolling Wagner’s spendthrift habits and extravagant ambition.

spendthrift 同义词

1 挥金如土的人

high roller

2 乱花钱的人

rounder

4 败家子

dissipate

6 酒色之徒

rip Corinthian debauchee

8 挥金如土

cost the earth

11 浪费的人

unthrift

15 挥霍者

waster prodigal squanderer

16 挥金如土的

free-spending

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