prodigal
英语
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编辑源自中古法語 prodigal,源自晚期拉丁語 prōdigālis (“浪费的”),源自拉丁語 prōdigus (“浪费的,挥霍的”),源自prōdigō (“消耗,浪费”),源自prōd-(←prō (“前,向前”)) + agō (“驱动”)。还见prodigy。
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编辑prodigal (比較級 more prodigal,最高級 most prodigal)
- 挥霍的,浪费的
- He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the holidays.
- 他想起放假时没节制地乱花钱,就很有罪恶感。
- The prodigal son spent his share of his inheritance until he was destitute.
- 浪子把自己分到的遗产花到身无分文。
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章號 XXIII, 出自 Francesca Carrara. […], 第 II 卷, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC,第 257 頁:
- The prodigal heir can only waste his own substance, and the punishment falls, as it should, upon himself; but the prince has an awful responsibility,—the welfare of others is required at his hands;...
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- (常后接of或with) 乱用...的,大量使用...的
- She was a merry person, glad and prodigal of smiles.
- 她是一个很快乐的人,一直都面带微笑。
- How can he be so prodigal with money on such a tight budget?
- 预算那么紧,他是怎么敢这样乱花钱的。
- 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, 第 10 卷,第 63 頁:
- He generally falls backwards and sometimes succumbs to the fever which ensues; hence as soon as the ordeal is over the women are prodigal of their attentions to him, and rub the swollen arm with a particular kind of herb.
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- 1974, James Herriot, Vet in Harness,第 201 頁:
- Granville poised himself over a vast sirloin, stropped his knife briskly, then began to hack away ruthlessly. He was a prodigal server and piled about two pounds of meat on my plate, then he started on the Yorkshire puddings.
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- 大量的
- 浪子的 (起源自《新约圣经》内通常叫做“Parable of the Prodigal Son”(浪子回头的比喻)的故事)
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编辑prodigal (複數 prodigals)
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编辑- “prodigal”,Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913年,OCLC 800618302
- “prodigal”,The Century Dictionary […],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,OCLC 867766587
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