profligate
profligate 英 [ˈprɒflɪgət] 美 [ˈprɑflɪgət]
adj. 放荡的，不检点的；恣意挥霍的 n. 放荡者；享乐者
名词复数:profligates
- Profligate, as a noun or as an adjective, implies recklessly wasting your money on extravagant luxury. Profligate behavior is a lot of fun, but you'll regret it later — when you get your charge card bill.
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- adj. 放荡的，不检点的；恣意挥霍的
- n. 放荡者；享乐者
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1. The cost to insure French debt soared this week as traders started to shift their attention away from the economic health of Europe's more profligate periphery to that of its core members.
上周，随着交易员们开始将他们的经济视角从欧洲那些恣意挥霍的边缘经济体转到了欧洲核心经济体身上，法国债券的保险成本出现了大幅攀升。
- profligate (adj.) 1520s, "overthrown, routed" (now obsolete in this sense), from Latin profligatus "destroyed, ruined, corrupt, abandoned, dissolute," past participle of profligare "to cast down, defeat, ruin," from pro "down, forth" (see pro-) + fligere "to strike" (see afflict). Main modern meaning "recklessly extravagant" is 1779, via notion of "ruined by vice" (1640s, implied in a use of profligation). Related: Profligately. As a noun from 1709.
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