prodigal

英 [ˈprɒdɪɡl]

美 [ˈprɑːdɪɡl]

adj.  浪费的; 挥霍的; 大手大脚的
n.  浪费者; 浪子; [动]军曹鱼

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BNC.19816 / COCA.19847

习惯用语

adj.

the/a prodigal (son)
• 回头的浪子；改邪归正的人
  a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home

牛津词典

adj.

• 浪费的；挥霍的；大手大脚的
  too willing to spend money or waste time, energy or materials

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 浪子回头的
  You can describe someone as aprodigalson or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person.
  1. ...the parable of the prodigal son.
     关于浪子回头的寓言
  2. Prodigalis also a noun.
     
  3. ...the prodigal had returned.
     浪子回头了。
• ADJ 挥霍的；浪费的；奢侈的
  Someone who behaves in aprodigalway spends a lot of money carelessly without thinking about what will happen when they have none left.
  1. Prodigal habits die hard.
     大手大脚的习惯很难改掉。

英英释义

noun

• a recklessly extravagant consumer
  Synonym:profligatesquanderer

adj

• recklessly wasteful
  1. prodigal in their expenditures
  Synonym:extravagantprofligatespendthrift

双语例句

• Just as the father did not condemn the prodigal for his wanderings, neither did he become angry with his second son's bitterness and jealousy.
  正如父亲没有谴责他流浪的浪子，他也没有成为他的第二个儿子的痛苦和嫉妒愤怒。
• I hope there's a fatted calf awaiting the return of the prodigal.
  我真希望这儿有只肥牛腿等着我们回来。
• Are you going to kill the fatted calf for the prodigal son, Jack?
  杰克，浪子回家，你准备宰杀那头小肥牛吗？
• I am determined, I really like the back of a prodigal son, back home, back to my father's side.
  我决心，我要像一个真正回头的浪子，回到家里，回到我父亲的身边。
• Only then did the prodigal come to understand that nothing had changed, nothing had been lost, nothing had destroyed his identity or his father's love.
  只有这样做了浪子认识到，什么都没有改变，什么也没有失去，什么都没有毁掉了他的身份和他父亲的爱。
• A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
  [谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。
• Your violence, Young prodigal, Is typical.
  你的暴力，年轻的浪子，是典型的无知表现。
• Do not provoke prodigal son of arts, culture, youth and middle-aged man.
  不要招惹浪子、文艺青年和中年男子。
• The old man cast off his prodigal son and disinherited him.
  老人断绝了与他的不肖儿子的关系，并剥夺了他的继承权。
• He wrote of this darkest period in life, when he referred to his father as "the Prodigal Father," in David Copperfield.
  他在《大.科波菲尔》称父亲为「那挥霍的父亲」，说的就是这段他一生最黑暗的日子。