prodigal

英 [ˈprɒdɪɡl]

美 [ˈprɑːdɪɡl]

adj. 浪费的; 挥霍的; 大手大脚的
n. 浪费者; 浪子; [动]军曹鱼

BNC.19816 / COCA.19847

习惯用语

adj.

the/a prodigal (son)

回头的浪子；改邪归正的人
a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home

adj.

ADJ 浪子回头的
You can describe someone as aprodigalson or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person.
1. ...the parable of the prodigal son.
  关于浪子回头的寓言
2. Prodigalis also a noun.
3. ...the prodigal had returned.
  浪子回头了。
ADJ 挥霍的；浪费的；奢侈的
Someone who behaves in aprodigalway spends a lot of money carelessly without thinking about what will happen when they have none left.
1. Prodigal habits die hard.
  大手大脚的习惯很难改掉。

noun

adj

recklessly wasteful
1. prodigal in their expenditures
Synonym:extravagantprofligatespendthrift

I hope there's a fatted calf awaiting the return of the prodigal.
我真希望这儿有只肥牛腿等着我们回来。
Are you a prodigal, a pharisee or a servant?
你是浪子，是法利赛人还是仆人？
There have been rumours that he has been prodigal with company funds.
有谣言说他挥霍公司的资金。
Are you kidding? The prodigal Luthor son returns.
开什么玩笑，路德企业的多金浪子。
He wrote of this darkest period in life, when he referred to his father as "the Prodigal Father," in David Copperfield.
他在《大.科波菲尔》称父亲为「那挥霍的父亲」，说的就是这段他一生最黑暗的日子。
The old man cast off his prodigal son and disinherited him.
老人断绝了与他的不肖儿子的关系，并剥夺了他的继承权。
A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
[谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。
A crowd of children came and were very happy to hear stories ( I brought the storybooks of Luke, the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son, etc).
一群小孩子聚集，他们很乐意听故事（我带了路得，好撒玛利亚人和浪子回家等故事书）。
He also taught us the example of the Father in the Prodigal Son.
他亦利用浪子回头比喻中父亲的榜样来训导我们。
He has been prodigal of the money left by his parents.
他已挥霍掉他父母留下的钱。