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

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）。
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。
Are you a prodigal, a pharisee or a servant?
你是浪子，是法利赛人还是仆人？
Your violence, Young prodigal, Is typical.
你的暴力，年轻的浪子，是典型的无知表现。
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？
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。
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。
The genius in his works, in his deeds, is necessarily a prodigal.
创作里的天才，行为上定是个挥霍者。
A prodigal who returns is more precious than gold.
浪子回头金不换。
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。