profligacy

英['prɒflɪɡəsi] 美['prɒflɪɡəsi]
  • n. 放荡;不检点;浪费
  • probabilism n.盖然论(对某事有两种均非决定性意见时,应由判断者随意决定的教义)
  • probability n.可能性;【数】或然率;机率;【统计】概率,概率论
  • probabilize vt.使成为可能;使有希望
  • probable adj.很可能的n.很可能的事
  • probably adv.大概;或许;很可能
Noun:
  1. the trait of spending extravagantly

  2. dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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    用作名词 (n.)
    1. Surplus countries enjoy condemning their customers for their profligacy.
      盈馀国家喜欢谴责其客户的恣意浪费。
    2. 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。

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