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profligacy ['prɒflɪɡəsɪ]

n. 放荡,不检点,肆意挥霍;

例句:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Cech warned that profligacy would cost them.
    来自THETIMES
  • We're rewarding them for their profligacy, or what have you.
    来自VOA
  • His profligacy cost him everything else.
    来自THETIMES