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- recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources恣意挥霍的; 极其浪费的：
profligate consumers of energy.
大肆浪费的能源消费者。
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- licentious; dissolute荒淫的; 放荡的; 行为不检的：
he succumbed to drink and a profligate lifestyle.
他整日酗酒, 生活荒淫无度。
- a licentious, dissolute person放荡的人; 荒淫无度者。
派生词
profligacy
nounprofligately
adverb词源
mid 16th cent. （in the sense 'overthrown，routed'）： from Latin profligatus 'dissolute'，past participle of profligare 'overthrow，ruin'，from pro-'forward，down'+fligere 'strike down'.