A WORD, A WORLD
profligacy
释义
- n.
- 放荡；堕落；荒淫；极度的浪费
- 网络
- 挥霍；肆意挥霍；不检点
展开详细释义
n.
1.极度的浪费;恣意的挥霍
2.放荡;堕落;荒淫
在例句中理解 31 句
The Gilded Age was one of extreme profligacy, both in business investment and sumptuous expenditure.
不管是商业投资、还是豪华消费，镀金时代（GildedAge）都算得上极度挥霍的时期之一。
A few Arab leaders recognise that water and energy profligacy must be curbed if ecological disaster is to be avoided.
一些阿拉伯国家领导人意识到，如果要避免生态灾难，必须遏制对水和能源的浪费。
Many companies realised too late how much they had depended on credit-fuelled profligacy.
许多公司太晚意识到自己太过于依赖信贷刺激的挥霍。
But she disdains America's profligacy just as much as she does that of Greece and the other debt-burdened eurozone economies.
但默克尔看不上美国肆意挥霍的作风，正如她看不上希腊和其他债台高筑的欧元区国家一样。
Similarly trying to appear rational is another way of trying to limit our profligacy.
同样地，倾向于理性是限制挥霍的另一种方式。
Another library, Profligacy, offers a Ruby wrapper around the raw Swing calls to help you write more Swing code with less raw Java code.
另一个库Profligacy则围绕原始的Swing调用提供了一个Ruby包装器，它可以帮助您用更少的原始Java代码编写更多的Swing代码。
But rebalancing means that the U. S. economy can't simply grow its way back to the pre-financial crisis era of American profligacy.
然而恢复经济平衡意味着美国经济决不能再回到金融危机前过穷奢极欲的日子。
Profligacy is the new prudence. But in Asia, where saving has long been a self-evident virtue, that message has yet to catch on.
挥霍应该是一种新式的审慎。但在长久以来一直把节俭当作一种不言而喻的美德的亚洲，这一观点还未盛行。
About five years out, McKinsey guesses, assuming inflation or government profligacy will not set the ball rolling early.
大约5年后，麦肯锡猜测道，而前提是通胀或政府的挥霍行为不至于让这种局面提前发生。
We have had enough clever schemes to protect bankers by shifting the cost of profligacy to the prudent citizenry.
我们已经有了很多高明方案，足以保护银行业者，具体来说就是把恣意挥霍的成本转移到生活节俭的国民头上。
Owning up to the geopolitical implications will be as painful for the rich nations as paying the domestic price for the profligacy.
对富裕国家来说，坦然承认地缘政治意义，和为肆意挥霍付出国内代价一样痛苦。
IN GERMAN EYES this crisis is all about profligacy.
在德国人眼中这次危机完全是由浪费造成的。
Lovelace was a pattern of male profligacy and influenced the literature of the time, particularly Russian - we owe Raskolnikov to Lovelace.
洛夫莱斯是个典型的浪子，并且影响了当时的文学界，特别是俄国文学——我们认为拉斯柯尔尼科夫就是深受洛夫莱斯的影响。
In Cheliotis' view, bootmaker Dr. Martens have been guilty in recent years of such profligacy.
在奥迪斯看来，制靴者马顿斯就对最近的这种浪费感到愧疚。
After years of profligacy, banks have all but stopped lending to each other as the US Congress decides whether to extend support.
在恣意妄为多年之后，银行们已几乎停止同业借贷，此时，美国国会正在考虑是否为它们提供支持。
Such profligacy would make the contributions of early farmers large enough to have an effect on worldwide levels of greenhouse gases.
如此的肆意耕作便得早期农民足以影响全球温室气体的含量。
Profligacy: extravagance is not an asset in these straitened times. You want a cost-conscious, abstemious colleague who leads by example.
肆意挥霍：大手大脚在资金紧缺的当下可不是个优点。你需要一位能以身作则地注意成本控制、有节制的合作伙伴。
Its citizenry has been aghast at the thought of having to help fund the financial profligacy of others.
对于不得不出资帮助别国的财务挥霍，德国公民是表示反对和诧异的。
A few years later, weakened by US fiscal profligacy, the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system anchored on the US currency collapsed.
几年过后，由于美国在财政上挥霍无度，锚定于美元的布雷顿森林固定汇率体系受到削弱，继而崩溃。
His profligacy is to be regarded kindly, for it is a sign of high spirits and noble birth.
他的挥霍是被善意看待的，因为这被视为意气风发和出身高贵的标志。
Thanks to Greek profligacy, German intransigency and Kim-Il-Jong's lunacy, we have U. S. bond buyers that are no longer rational investors.
由于希腊的债务危机、德国的强硬态度以及金正日的疯狂，美国债券买家已经不再是理性的投资者。
But they needed to win over Tea Partiers, who claim that they were criticizing Dubya's profligacy long before President Obama took office.
但是他们需要说服茶党，该党声称他们一直批评答不溜长期肆意挥霍直到奥巴马执政。
Beijing's proposal, therefore, looks more like a shot across Washington's bow, reflecting concern about the impact of U. S. profligacy.
因此，中国的提议更像是对华盛顿发出一个警告，它反映出中国对美国大肆开支可能带来的后果感到担忧。
Since any subsidy distorts decisions towards greater profligacy, government debt will probably swell, possibly to unsustainable levels.
由于任何补贴都可能扭曲政府决策，令其更加倾向于挥霍，政府债务可能会膨胀，乃至上升至不可持续的水平。
Equally predictably, the surplus countries see things differently, and blame the profligacy and the debt addiction of the debtor countries.
同样可以预见的是，盈余国家的视角会有所不同，将问题归咎于债务国的铺张浪费和借债上瘾。
Maybe the tide will reverse, now that America has been laid low yet again by the profligacy of its citizens. But don't bet on it.
这股潮流或许会逆转——既然美国已再一次被国民的肆意挥霍挫伤了元气。不过这也难说。
Yet neither the European Commission nor the markets can fix the euro's deeper problem, which does not lie in fiscal profligacy.
然而不管是欧洲委员会还是市场都无法解决欧元的深层次问题，而这个问题并不是因为财政挥霍而生。
But experience from Chile to Switzerland suggests that the right budgetary girdles can restrain profligacy .
从智利和瑞士的过往经验看，有效的预算控制能很好地防止国家财政收入的滥用。
Recession, they reason, must be a penance for past profligacy .
人们争辩说，经济衰退必然是过去挥霍无度的一种自我惩罚。
Fourth, the greatest risk of sovereign credit crises comes not from profligacy but slow growth and deflation.
第四，主权信贷危机的最大风险并非来自肆意挥霍，而是来自增长缓慢和通缩。
...the continuing profligacy of certain states.
...某些州持续存在的挥霍浪费现象。