英:[ˈspendθrɪft]
美:[ˈspɛndˌθrɪft]
英:[ˈspendθrɪft]
美:[ˈspɛndˌθrɪft]
spend·thrift
spend thrIft
复数:spendthrifts
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
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
"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。
The first known use of spendthrift was in 1584
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
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.
1 挥金如土的人
2 乱花钱的人
3 浪费
extravagant wasteful prodigal improvident extravagance spend squander lose waste scatter lavish dissipate trifle fritter wanton loiter misspend dawdle away blow the expense do oneself proud fool away uneconomical thriftless unthrifty dissipation dally slather potter haemorrhage drivel dawdle dally away play ducks and drakes with make away with like water expensive flush costly profuse uneconomic dissipative squanderingly loss wastage profusion wasting dilapidation prodigality piddle prodigalize sport blue burn blow consume pour melt fool muddle diddle dilapidate
4 败家子
5 挥霍
prodigal profligate free-spending dissipative splurge wastefulness prodigality sumptuousness sumptuosity dissipate blow splash scatter make the money fly play ducks and drakes with piss away extravagant wasteful improvident extravagance improvidence squander splash about splash around Lucullan dissolution wanton slather blue lavish waste drivel throw about make away with like water go it flush profuse profusion prodigalize burn riot
6 酒色之徒
8 挥金如土
11 浪费的人
12 浪费的
extravagant wasteful prodigal improvident uneconomical thriftless unthrifty like water expensive flush costly lavish profuse uneconomic dissipative
14 挥霍的
prodigal profligate free-spending dissipative extravagant wasteful improvident Lucullan like water flush profuse
15 挥霍者
16 挥金如土的