prodigal

/'prɒdigl/ uk　 词频 #19847

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prodigal 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 浪费者

a. 浪费的, 挥霍的, 丰富的

英文释义

n. a recklessly extravagant consumer

prodigal 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 prodigal 在自然语境里怎么用：

Feynman, the prodigal protege, would later work out one of Dirac’s recondite hypotheses on a blackboard.

—— The Nautilus Reading List of Science Biographies

We do not ask where the prodigal son’s father really lived, or whether the man who built his house on sand had a deed, or who could certify that the foolish virgins were virgins.

—— St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It?

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