SAT GRE
外刊例句
- That makes it hard to charge a proper price for it, which in turn encourages profligate use.
这就使得政府很难恰当地给水标价，而这继而又助长了浪费水的习惯。
——《经济学人》 - Italians are rich, prudent savers. Their state is poor, profligate and inefficient.
意大利人富有，却谨小慎微地存钱。他们的政府一穷二白，却恣意挥霍，效率低下。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[adjective] recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources
[形容词] 使用资源时不计后果地挥霍或浪费
深入解读
profligate源自拉丁语profligatus（毁坏的、腐败的、抛弃的、放荡的），其在16世纪20年代进入英语时的意思是“被推翻的、被彻底击败的”，但这个意思随后消亡，转为表示“恣意挥霍的、极其浪费的”，也可以指一个人生活放荡荒淫不检点。
影视用例
A man gets tired of living a profligate life.
一个厌倦了放荡不羁生活的人。
出自《越狱》（Prison Break）第五季第1集。该剧是一部惊悚悬疑类美国电视剧，其第一季对悬念与节奏的把握恰到好处，成为脍炙人口的经典作品，但之后的续作普遍反应平平。
深度学习
profligate (PROF li gut) Adjective or noun, this word refers to “wild” behavior that may be in the monetary or the sexual realm—or both.
Her profligate spending habits had to cease after she lost her high-paying job as flower-arranger to the stars.
The Thompsons brought up their son, George, to observe a very strict code of morality, so it has been hard for them to witness his adult transformation into a profligate, specializing in wine, women, and song.
——摘自《Fiske WordPower: The Most Effective System for Building a Vocabulary That Gets Results Fast》
机器翻译，仅供参考
挥霍（PROF li gut）形容词或名词，这个词指的是“狂野”的行为，可能是在金钱领域或性领域，也可能是两者兼有。
在她把插花的高薪工作丢给明星之后，她挥霍无度的消费习惯不得不停止。
汤普森一家抚养他们的儿子乔治，以遵守非常严格的道德准则，因此他们很难目睹他成年后变成一个放荡的人，专攻葡萄酒、女人和歌曲。
常见短语
“profligate“通常用来表示挥霍的、浪费的或放荡的。以下是与这个词相关的 50 个短语，附带中文解释：
- Financially profligate – 财务上挥霍的
- profligate spending – 浪费性支出
- Morally profligate – 道德败坏的
- Politically profligate – 政治上的挥霍
- profligate behavior – 放荡的行为
- profligate lifestyle – 奢侈的生活方式
- profligate habits – 浪费的习惯
- profligate consumption – 放肆的消费
- profligate use of resources – 资源的滥用
- Socially profligate – 社会上的放荡
- Environmentally profligate – 环境上的挥霍
- profligate use of energy – 能源的浪费
- profligate spending habits – 浪费性支出的习惯
- profligate behavior patterns – 放荡的行为模式
- profligate waste of materials – 材料的挥霍浪费
- profligate lifestyle choices – 奢侈的生活方式选择
- profligate misuse of funds – 资金的滥用
- profligate exploitation of resources – 资源的过度开发
- profligate consumption patterns – 放肆的消费模式
- profligate spending practices – 浪费性支出的做法
- profligate disregard for consequences – 对后果的无视
- profligate disregard for rules – 对规则的漠视
- profligate squandering of opportunities – 机会的挥霍浪费
- profligate misuse of power – 权力的滥用
- profligate indulgence – 放纵
- profligate extravagance – 奢侈
- profligate waste – 浪费
- profligate behavior – 放荡的行为
- profligate habits – 挥霍的习惯
- profligate consumption – 放肆的消费
- profligate spending – 浪费性支出
- profligate lifestyle – 奢侈的生活方式
- profligate misuse of resources – 资源的滥用
- profligate use of money – 钱的挥霍
- profligate actions – 放荡的行动
- profligate waste of time – 时间的浪费
- profligate behavior choices – 放荡的行为选择
- profligate expenditure – 放肆的支出
- profligate lifestyle habits – 奢侈的生活方式习惯
- profligate consumption of goods – 商品的放肆消费
- profligate misuse of opportunities – 机会的滥用
- profligate spending patterns – 浪费性支出模式
- profligate behavior patterns – 放荡的行为模式
- profligate waste of resources – 资源的挥霍浪费
- profligate use of materials – 材料的滥用
- profligate spending practices – 浪费性支出的实践
- profligate lifestyle choices – 放肆的生活方式选择
- profligate disregard for consequences – 对后果的漠视
- profligate disregard for rules – 对规则的无视
- profligate squandering of opportunities – 机会的挥霍浪费
同近义词
- prodigal: spending money or using resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant
- lavish: sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious
- extravagant: lacking restraint in spending money or using resources
