profligacy

US 
UK ['prɒflɪɡəsi]
  • n.放荡；堕落；荒淫；极度的浪费
  • Web挥霍；肆意挥霍；不检点

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n.
1.
放荡;堕落;荒淫
2.
极度的浪费;恣意的挥霍

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AllAll,放荡放荡,堕落堕落,荒淫荒淫,极度的浪费极度的浪费,挥霍挥霍,肆意挥霍肆意挥霍,不检点不检点
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1.
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。
dàn mò kè ěr kàn bú shàng měi guó sì yì huī huò de zuò fēng , zhèng rú tā kàn bú shàng xī là hé qí tā zhài tái gāo zhù de ōu yuán qū guó jiā yí yàng 。
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2.
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。
xǔ duō gōng sī tài wǎn yì shí dào zì jǐ tài guò yú yī lài xìn dài cì jī de huī huò 。
www.ecocn.org
3.
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。
yì xiē ā lā bó guó jiā lǐng dǎo rén yì shí dào , rú guǒ yào bì miǎn shēng tài zāi nàn , bì xū è zhì duì shuǐ hé néng yuán de làng fèi 。
article.yeeyan.org
4.
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。
bù guǎn shì shāng yè tóu zī 、 hái shì háo huá xiāo fèi , dù jīn shí dài ( GildedAge ) dōu suàn de shàng jí dù huī huò de shí qī zhī yī 。
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5.
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。
tóng yàng de , qīng xiàng yú lǐ xìng shì xiàn zhì huī huò de lìng yī zhǒng fāng shì 。
www.elanso.com
6.
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。
lìng yī gè kù Profligacy zé wéi rào yuán shǐ de Swing diào yòng tí gōng le yī gè Ruby bāo zhuāng qì , tā kě yǐ bāng zhù nín yòng gèng shǎo de yuán shǐ Java dài mǎ biān xiě gèng duō de Swing dài mǎ 。
www.ibm.com
7.
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。
rán ér huī fù jīng jì píng héng yì wèi zhe měi guó jīng jì jué bù néng zài huí dào jīn róng wēi jī qián guò qióng shē jí yù de rì zǐ 。
dongxi.net
8.
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。
huī huò yīng gāi shì yī zhǒng xīn shì de shěn shèn 。 dàn zài cháng jiǔ yǐ lái yì zhí bǎ jié jiǎn dāng zuò yī zhǒng bù yán ér yù de měi dé de yà zhōu , zhè yī guān diǎn hái wèi shèng xíng 。
blog.sina.com.cn
9.
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。
dà yuē wǔ nián hòu , mài kěn xī cāi cè dào , ér qián tí shì tōng zhàng huò zhèng fǔ de huī huò xíng wéi bú zhì yú ràng zhè zhǒng jú miàn tí qián fā shēng 。
www.ftchinese.com
10.
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。
wǒ men yǐ jīng yǒu liǎo hěn duō gāo míng fāng àn , zú yǐ bǎo hù yín háng yè zhě , jù tǐ lái shuō jiù shì bǎ zì yì huī huò de chéng běn zhuǎn yí dào shēng huó jié jiǎn de guó mín tóu shàng 。
chinese.wsj.com
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