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prodigal

/prod-i-guhl/US // ˈprɒd ɪ gəl //UK // (ˈprɒdɪɡəl) //

挥霍无度,浪荡子,挥霍浪费,浪子回头

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
    • : giving or yielding profusely; very generous; lavish: prodigal of smiles; prodigal with praise.
    • : lavishly abundant; profuse: nature's prodigal resources.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is wasteful of his or her money, possessions, etc.; spendthrift: In later years, he was a prodigal of his fortune.

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Examples

  • It’s a document of Gullah Geechee culinary history, as well as the story of a self-described “prodigal son” returning to the land that raised him.

  • Abercrombie weaves the tale of Prince Yarvi in a tale part Captains Courageous, part Revenge of the Nerds, and part Prodigal Son.

  • No one knows, but on the 4th of July he began bellowing that the Prodigal Son would, in fact, return.

  • Her "prodigal son" brother, Mehran (Reza Sixo Safari), a former classical musician, returns home from a stint in drug rehab.

  • Turns out, Nash's "prodigal roommate" Charles isn't real, but rather a personification of Nash's loss of youthful exuberance.

  • In going to the Cleveland Cavaliers, he was the prodigal son playing in his homeland.

  • I doubt if the State itself has ever known the meaning of hospitality since the old ranch days, when, of course, it was prodigal.

  • Here is Christianity with its marvellous parable of the Prodigal Son to teach us indulgence and pardon.

  • Sterile, dissipated and prodigal, she made her husband very unhappy, thus avenging the first Mme. Brunner.

  • The rooks were awake in Randolph Crescent; but the windows looked down, discreetly blinded, on the return of the prodigal.

  • In a pew on the left-hand side a little old man was holding forth as to the “prodigal son.”