prodigal
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編輯詞源
編輯源自中古法語 prodigal，源自晚期拉丁語 prōdigālis (「浪費的」)，源自拉丁語 prōdigus (「浪費的，揮霍的」)，源自prōdigō (「消耗，浪費」)，源自prōd-（←prō (「前，向前」)） + agō (「驅動」)。還見prodigy。
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編輯prodigal (比較級 more prodigal，最高級 most prodigal)
- 揮霍的，浪費的
- He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the holidays.
- 他想起放假時沒節制地亂花錢，就很有罪惡感。
- The prodigal son spent his share of his inheritance until he was destitute.
- 浪子把自己分到的遺產花到身無分文。
- 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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- (常後接of或with) 亂用...的，大量使用...的
- She was a merry person, glad and prodigal of smiles.
- 她是一個很快樂的人，一直都面帶微笑。
- How can he be so prodigal with money on such a tight budget?
- 預算那麼緊，他是怎麼敢這樣亂花錢的。
- 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《新約聖經》內通常叫做「Parable of the Prodigal Son」（浪子回頭的比喻）的故事）
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編輯prodigal (複數 prodigals)
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編輯- 「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
- OneLook 在線詞典 上有關 prodigal 的釋義