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profligacy的意思

profligacy

基本解释

n. 肆意挥霍;放荡;浪费

英文词源

profligacy (n.)
1670s, from profligate + -cy.

实用例句

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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