It was not a prodigal's return to neoconservatism, from one simplicity to another.

这并不是浪子回头般的回到新保守主义，从一个简单的主义换到另一个。

Well well well, the prodigal son returns.

好啊好啊，浪子回头了。

We can, in short, see why nature is prodigal in variety, though niggard in innovation.

简而言之，我们可以看到为什么大自然在多样性方面挥霍无度， 但在创新方面却吝啬。

Man's case is always that of the prodigal's favourite or the miser's pensioner.

人的情况总是浪子的最爱或守财奴的养老金领取者。

And I went back to Carlisle and Esme. They welcomed me back like the prodigal. It was more than I deserved.

然后我回到了卡莱尔和艾思梅的身边。他们热切地欢迎我这个游子归来。这远比我应得的还要多。”

My father, like the father in Christ's story of the prodigal son, would have welcomed me.

我的父亲，就像基督浪子故事中的父亲一样， 会欢迎我。

Now the prodigal son had to fend for himself and for his new family, which wasn’t easy.

现在浪子不得不照顾自己和他的新家庭， 这并不容易。

How careless they had been of food then, what prodigal waste! Rolls, corn muffins, biscuits and waffles, dripping butter, all at one meal.

那时他们对于食物是多么不在乎，多么奢侈浪费啊！卷子，玉米松饼、小甜面包、鸡蛋饼，滴滴答答的黄油，每顿饭都有。餐桌的一端摆着火腿，另一端是烤鸡。成锅的蓝菜炖得酽酽的，上面飘着一层放彩的油花。青豆在亮晶晶的花瓷盘里，堆得像一座小山。

But by obvious innuendo he confirmed Anthony's melancholy inference that the prodigal grandson would be particularly unwelcome at the bedside.

但通过明显的影射，他证实了安东尼忧郁的推断，即浪子孙子在床边会特别不受欢迎。

And she began telling him everything, hurriedly, disjointedly, exaggerating the facts, inventing many, and so prodigal of parentheses that he understood nothing of it.

于是她就讲了起来，讲得太急，前言不搭后语，又夸大其辞，还捏造了不少事实，加油加酱，啰里啰嗦，结果他听不出个名堂来。