spendthrift

spendthrift

美 [ˈspendˌθrɪft] 　英 ['spend.θrɪft]

• adj.乱花钱的；浪费的
• n.花钱无度的人；挥霍者
• 网络败家子；挥金如土的；挥霍浪费

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She was spendthrift . Money was no object for her . She kept buying more and more jewelry , causing her husband to go bankrupt.

因为他太太很浪费。对她来说金钱不是问题。她不断买珠宝，害她先生破产了。

Yet many of Asia's tiger economies seem to have been hit harder than their spendthrift Western counterparts.

然而，许多亚洲强势经济体似乎受到了比大肆挥霍的西方国家更严重的打击。

the world seems to have gotten awfully spendthrift since I went into the slam - and looking for hayfields.

我不得不遗憾地说，比起我入狱之前，现在的世界似乎变得挥霍无度——然后继续寻找那片牧草地。

Americans are beginning to accept that their country must become less spendthrift.

美国社会不能继续挥霍无度这一观念正在被越来越多的民众所接受；

Yet reasoning of this kind is increasingly used to explain how spendthrift countries get into trouble.

但是类似的思维方式正越来越频繁地被用于解释那些挥霍无度的国家是怎样卷入麻烦中的。

More niggling is the suspicion that the ECB has caved in to political pressure to help out spendthrift governments.

更麻烦的是，ECB为帮助挥霍无度的政府而屈从于政治压力的嫌疑。

Yet it was his late father Andreas, a spendthrift Pasok premier, who sowed the seeds of Greece's crisis with a borrowing spree in the 1980s.

但是，正是他已故的父亲安德里·帕潘德里欧---挥霍浪费的泛希社运总理--在上世纪80年代用借贷热潮播下了希腊经济危机的种子。

But as those banks start blowing up and its economy shrinks, Spain will look more like its spendthrift southern European neighbor.

但如果西班牙的银行开始破产，经济开始萎缩，它就会变得跟南面这位挥霍无度的欧洲邻居没什么两样。

Even some of the more muted coverage has, more or less, characterized Amazon as a shopaholic or spendthrift of sorts.

即便较为温和的报道，也多多少少地将亚马逊描述成一家大手大脚或大肆挥霍的公司。

He believes this change in behaviour marks a long-term shift from the spendthrift habits of the boom to a savings culture.

他认为，这种行为变化标志着从繁荣时期习惯于铺张挥霍到现在节约成为新消费文化的长期性转变。

She is nobody's idea of a spendthrift, happily chucking money in the direction of the undeserving poor.

大家都不认为她是个喜欢在不值得的地方扔钱的人。

China, some economists say, lulled American consumers, and their leaders, into complacency about their spendthrift ways. . .

有些经济学家说，中国给美国的消费者和他们的债权人催眠，使他们对自己的挥霍方式十分满意。

Every year the avenue is more lustrously paved with the gold of a million spendthrift tourists from mainland China.

每年都会有大量来自中国内地的游客，他们挥金如土，给条大街撒下的黄金让它更加炫目。

You ' re like a lot of others, a loose spender, that's what you are. A spendthrift.

你跟许多人一样，花钱大手大脚，这就是你，一个挥霍无度的人。

Countries like Hungary had big, over-leveraged financial systems, plagued by reckless lending and spendthrift consumers.

像匈牙利这样的国家拥有庞大、高杠杆率的金融系统，正被轻率的放贷和挥霍的消费折磨着。

But even in the United States, the most spendthrift of nations, the private sector finally got religion.

但是甚至在美国，最崇尚消费的国家，私人消费最终变得节俭起来。

And unless your spouse is a complete spendthrift, compromising is a heck of a lot cheaper than a divorce.

妥协的代价总比离婚要低，除非你的另一半根本就是一个挥霍无度的人。

Much of the talk will be about mechanisms for reprimanding spendthrift governments.

会议主要讨论谴责各国政府挥金如土的机制。

Inflation was tamed , and spendthrift local and federal governments were required by law to rein in their debts .

通胀得到抑制，挥霍无度的地方和中央政府被法律要求严格控制他们的债务。

Peacetime as not to waste food, water and electricity, no spendthrift, and the students build friendships.

平时不浪费粮食、水电，不乱花钱，和同学建立友谊。

That shift has upset some other EU countries that had relied on selling to spendthrift British consumers.

这种变化使一些依赖向挥霍无度的英国消费者出口的欧元区国家感到不安。

as became a good manager , he would put a stop to such spendthrift courses.

他是一个好管家，他得阻止这种浪费行为。

I'm a goddam spendthrift at heart. What I don't spend, I lose.

我天生是个败家子。有了钱不是花掉，就是丢掉。

If you're a spendthrift picking a mate, you might unconsciously be looking for help reining in bad spending habits.

你花钱大手大脚，在选择伴侣时就不由自主地渴望控制不良支出习惯。

Her team has quickly signalled the need for some budget austerity after Lula's last two spendthrift years.

她的团队随即要求紧缩预算，结束卢拉政府过去两年的挥霍生活。

Thus the savings of poor Asian farmers have financed the habits of spendthrift Westerners.

其结果是，亚洲的贫困农民用他们的存款为习惯挥霍的西方人提供资金。

He is haunted by the actions of Unoka, his cowardly and spendthrift father, who died in disrepute, leaving many village debts unsettled.

他是闹鬼的行动Unoka，他的怯懦和挥金如土的父亲，谁死在声誉，使许多乡村债务解决。

If they realise that their parents are of good income, they will be spendthrift.

如果知道父母收入好，会乱花钱

A spendthrift will allow a few people to monopolize her attention.

阿败家子将允许少数人垄断了她的注意。

Bloom is a true emotional spendthrift who uses his feelings lavishly.

布卢姆是个真正的滥情者。

Respondents were rated on a 'Tightwad-Spendthrift scale' based on how each partner felt about spending money.

根据受访者对自己支出习惯的感觉，对他们在“节俭-挥霍刻度表”上进行打分。

But stealth parties offer the privileged a chance to consume without an inner censor chiding them for their spendthrift ways.

但隐密的购物派对提供有钱阶级一个机会，让他们不必为了挥金如土感到内疚。

Thusthe savings of poor Asian farmers have financed the habits of spendthrift Westerners.

可怜的亚洲农民的积蓄为西方人挥金如土的习惯垫定了经济基础。

After a brief pause, shoppers have resumed their spendthrift ways.

稍作停顿之后，顾客们继续开始了他们的挥霍抢购。

Those that used to play are playing still, so spendthrift is life.

常常在游戏的那些人，仍然还在那里游戏，生命总是如此地浪费。

But now consumers are on a diet, and it is hard to imagine them returning to their spendthrift ways anytime soon.

但消费者现在却开始节食了，而且很难想像他们短期内会恢复以往挥霍无度的生活方式。

When I was a boy, my dad observed my spendthrift ways and often said that money burned a hole in my pocket.

小时候，父亲看我挥霍金钱的方式，常说钱把我的口袋烧了一个洞。

Instead of resuming their old spendthrift ways, they are saving.

他们没有重拾过去大手大脚花钱的习惯，而是把钱存入银行。

But the sad truth is, if you're a spendthrift. . .

但可悲的事实是，如果你是一个挥霍无度的人。

By Tara Conry Are you a repentant spendthrift who's thinking that all this frugality is looking pretty sexy?

你是否是一个有所悔悟的挥霍浪费者，觉得所有这些节俭行为看起来是那么有吸引力？