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

Are you kidding? The prodigal Luthor son returns.
开什么玩笑，路德企业的多金浪子。
There have been rumours that he has been prodigal with company funds.
有谣言说他挥霍公司的资金。
A prodigal who returns is more precious than gold.
浪子回头金不换。
I was acting in a play called the return of the prodigal.
我当时正在《浪子回头》一剧中担任角色。
I am determined, I really like the back of a prodigal son, back home, back to my father's side.
我决心，我要像一个真正回头的浪子，回到家里，回到我父亲的身边。
That lack of understanding and his self-righteous stance had separated him from his father just as much as the prodigal's misguided wanderings had done.
这种理解和他的自我的正义立场没有脱离过他的父亲一样，浪子的误导他做了很多流浪。
Are you going to kill the fatted calf for the prodigal son, Jack?
杰克，浪子回家，你准备宰杀那头小肥牛吗？
A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
[谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。
The story of the Prodigal Son, also known as the Parable of the Lost Son, follows the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin.
浪子回头的故事，也作为著名的比喻失去了儿子，遵循的是迷失的羊和丢失的硬币的比喻。
The teaching of the parable does not end, however, with the prodigal's return.
该寓言教学并没有结束，但是，与浪子的归来。