Prodigality

(n.) Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.

录入:莫伊拉

• 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. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Has she not bestowed on him every gift in prodigality? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigality and misconduct. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He accuses him of prodigality because of his great public buildings, and of being vain and dissolute (! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The effects of misconduct are often the same as those of prodigality. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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