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a profligate
通常指道德或财务上不负责任的人。
He was known as a profligate who squandered his inheritance.
他被称为一个放荡挥霍的人，挥霍掉了他的遗产。
放荡者；浪荡子
profligates — plural of profligate
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放荡者；浪荡子
A person who behaves immorally and without restraint; a dissolute person.
He was known as a profligate who squandered his inheritance.
他被称为一个放荡挥霍的人，挥霍掉了他的遗产。
堕落的人；公然无耻的恶棍
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
时尚社会中的放荡者
a dissolute man in fashionable society
过度浪费或奢侈的人
An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
不计后果的奢侈消费者
a recklessly extravagant consumer
The young profligate squandered his entire fortune on gambling and parties.
那个年轻的浪荡子把全部家产挥霍在了赌博和派对上。
In the novel, the profligate is eventually abandoned by all his friends.
在这部小说中，那个放荡者最终被所有朋友抛弃。
The profligate's lavish lifestyle quickly drained his family's wealth.
那个浪荡子的奢华生活很快耗尽了家族财富。
通常指道德或财务上不负责任的人。
He was known as a profligate who squandered his inheritance.
他被称为一个放荡挥霍的人，挥霍掉了他的遗产。
复数形式指代一群这样的人。
The profligates of the aristocracy often fell into debt.
贵族中的那些挥霍者常常陷入债务。
用于强调某人的品行。
I had never met such a profligate before.
我以前从未见过这样一个放荡的人。
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放荡的浪荡子
The novel's hero is a dissolute profligate who wastes his entire fortune.
这部小说的主人公是个放荡的浪荡子，把全部家产挥霍殆尽。
不计后果的挥霍者
He was a reckless profligate who gambled away his family's savings.
他是个不计后果的挥霍者，把家里的积蓄都赌光了。
身无分文的浪荡子
By the end, the penniless profligate was begging for food.
到最后，这个身无分文的浪荡子沦落到讨饭为生。
年轻的浪荡子
The young profligate spent his entire allowance in a single week.
这个年轻的浪荡子在一周内就把零用钱花光了。
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Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把profligate里的flig想成fly，钞票像纸飞机一样飞走——挥霍无度的浪荡子。
语域：formal 常见场景：文学或正式文体、历史/社会评论 profligate 作名词时比较正式，多用于文学或正式评论中，指行为放荡或挥霍无度的人。日常口语中较少使用，常带有强烈的贬义色彩。
发音匹配：gate /ɡeɪt/、gait /ɡeɪt/、great /ɡreɪt/、late /leɪt/、plate /pleɪt/ 与 profligate 末尾的 /eɪt/ 一致（其中 gate 和 gait 同音，great 拼作 -eat 但读音相同）；investigate /ɪnˈvestɪˌɡeɪt/ 与 profligate 共享 -igate 拼写和 /ɡeɪt/ 结尾。注意 profligate 的主重音在第一音节 /prɔ/，不要把 -gate 念成主重音；类似拼写但发音不同的词如 plait /plæt/ 需小心。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.