prodigal
prodigal 英 [ˈprɒdɪgl] 美 [ˈprɑdɪgl]
adj. 挥霍的；十分慷慨的 n. 浪子；挥霍者
名词复数:prodigals
- Use the adjective prodigal to describe someone who spends too much money, or something very wasteful. Your prodigal spending on fancy coffee drinks might leave you with no money to buy lunch.
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- adj. 挥霍的；十分慷慨的
- n. 浪子；挥霍者
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1. The fossil record reveals a natural history of pain, death and racial extinction, so if there was a divine plan, it was cruel, callously prodigal and wasteful.
化石的记载揭露了一段充满痛苦、死亡和种族灭绝的自然历史，如果其中真有神的安排，那它未免太残酷、太冷漠、太挥霍了。
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2. Like the prodigal Son, we all eventually return to "now" to find our spiritual home and to find true happiness.
我们像浪子，最终都通过回到“当下”，找到我们的精神家园和真正的幸福。
- prodigal (adj.) mid-15c., a back-formation from prodigality, or else from Middle French prodigal and directly from Late Latin prodigalis, from Latin prodigus "wasteful," from prodigere "drive away, waste," from pro "forth" (from PIE root *per- (1) "forward") + agere "to set in motion, drive; to do, perform" (from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move"). First reference is to prodigal son, from Vulgate Latin filius prodigus (Luke xv.11-32). As a noun, "prodigal person," 1590s, from the adjective (the Latin adjective also was used as a noun).
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