| 单词 | wastrel |
| 释义 | wastrelWord family noun wastage waste wastefulness waster wastrel wastenesswasterfulnesswasterywaste groundwastelandwaste paperwaste productadjective waste wasteful wasted wasting wastablewasterfulwasterifeverb waste adverb wastefully wasterfully was·trel /ˈweɪstrəl/ noun [countableC] literaryALWASTE something a lazy person who does not try to achieve anything in life 浪荡子，不务正业的人 Examples from the Corpus wastrel• But these two spent their gifts like wastrels.• Another time, Lucy talked about Jeremy, his father's wastrel shadow ever in the background.• The family were not rich; much of their land had been sold to pay the debts of successive wastrel sons. (1500-1600) waste + -rel (as in scoundrel) |
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