Profuse
[prə'fjuːs] or [prə'fjus]
解释:
(a.) Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality.
(a.) Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure.
(v. t.) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
克劳德特录入
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Lavish, prodigal, improvident, extravagant, wasteful, too liberal, too bountiful.[2]. Exuberant, over-abounding, in profusion.
校对:伦道夫
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Copious, lavish, prodigal, bountiful, exuberant, excessive
ANT:Scanty, sparing, chary, parsimonious, niggardly, churlish, poor
亨廷顿编辑
解释:
adj. liberal to excess: lavish: extravagant.—adv. Profūse′ly.—ns. Profūse′ness Profū′sion state of being profuse: extravagance: prodigality.
德威特编辑
例句:
- Nobody affects the character of liberality and good fellowship, by being profuse of a liquor which is as cheap as small beer. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Their charity became gradually less extensive, their hospitality less liberal, or less profuse. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- If mere existence, and not happiness, had been the final end of our being, what need of the profuse luxuries which we enjoy? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- A frugal man, or a man eager to be rich, is said to love money; and a careless, a generous, or a profuse man, is said to be indifferent about it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- My Lady signifies, without profuse expenditure of words, that she is as wearily well as she can hope to be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- With the departure of the figures the profuse articulations of the women wasted away from her memory; but the accents of the other stayed on. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Mrs. Bennet was profuse in her acknowledgments. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- It seems absurd at first sight, that we should despise their persons, and yet reward their talents with the most profuse liberality. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Amelia's maid was profuse in condolences, but went off quite resigned to better herself in a genteeler quarter of the town. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Her profuse raven locks were entirely unadorned, and her neck, arms and fingers were covered with glittering jewels of every colour. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
德威特编辑