Prodigality
[,prɒdɪ'ɡælətɪ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.
錄入:莫伊拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Wastefulness, extravagance, excess, profusion, lavishness, unthriftiness, squandering.
錄入:梅利特
例句/造句/用法:
- Permit me to give an idea of my devotion to my aunt's interests by recording that, on this occasion, I committed the prodigality of taking a cab. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Has she not bestowed on him every gift in prodigality? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigality and misconduct. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He accuses him of prodigality because of his great public buildings, and of being vain and dissolute (! 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The effects of misconduct are often the same as those of prodigality. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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