It was not a prodigal's return to neoconservatism, from one simplicity to another.

这并不是子回头般的回到新保守主义，从个简单的主义换到另个。

Well well well, the prodigal son returns.

好啊好啊，子回头了。

We can, in short, see why nature is prodigal in variety, though niggard in innovation.

简而言之，我们可以看到为什么大自然在多性方面挥霍无度， 但在创新方面却吝啬。

Man's case is always that of the prodigal's favourite or the miser's pensioner.

人的情况总是子的最爱或守财奴的养老金领取者。

And I went back to Carlisle and Esme. They welcomed me back like the prodigal. It was more than I deserved.

然后我回到了卡莱尔和艾思梅的身边。他们热切地欢迎我这个游子归来。这远比我应得的还要多。”

My father, like the father in Christ's story of the prodigal son, would have welcomed me.

我的父亲，就像基督子故事中的父亲， 欢迎我。

Now the prodigal son had to fend for himself and for his new family, which wasn’t easy.

现在子不得不照顾自己和他的新家， 这并不容易。

How careless they had been of food then, what prodigal waste! Rolls, corn muffins, biscuits and waffles, dripping butter, all at one meal.

那时他们对于食物是多么不在乎，多么奢啊！卷子，玉米松饼、小甜面包、鸡蛋饼，滴滴答答的黄油，每顿饭都有。餐桌的端摆着火腿，另端是烤鸡。成锅的蓝菜炖得酽酽的，上面飘着层放彩的油花。青豆在亮晶晶的花瓷盘里，堆得像座小山。

But by obvious innuendo he confirmed Anthony's melancholy inference that the prodigal grandson would be particularly unwelcome at the bedside.

但通过明显的影射，他证实了安东尼忧郁的推断，即子孙子在床边特别不受欢迎。

And she began telling him everything, hurriedly, disjointedly, exaggerating the facts, inventing many, and so prodigal of parentheses that he understood nothing of it.

于是她就讲了起来，讲得太急，前言不搭后语，又夸大其辞，还捏造了不少事实，加油加酱，啰里啰嗦，结果他听不出个名堂来。

The prodigal perverts it in this manner: By not confining his expense within his income, he encroaches upon his capital.

子以这种方式滥用它：通过不将支出限制在收入之内，他侵占了他的资本。

With great animation Heidi read the story of the prodigal son, who was happy at home with his father's cows and sheep.

海蒂兴高采烈地读了子的故事， 子在家里和父亲的牛羊在起很开心。

This is Tolstoy, a prodigal son in a house of nobility, feeling the stirrings of a writer in the cavernous hollows of his heart.

这就是托尔斯泰，个贵族之家的子，在他空洞的心灵深处感受着作家的激荡。

As much as we like to think of ourselves  as philosophically forward-thinking and technologically prodigal,   we owe a huge debt to the past.

尽管我们喜欢认为自己在哲学上具有前瞻性思维并且在技术上挥霍无度，但我们对过去欠下了巨大的债务。

How many, locked in a stance of resentment and wounded pride, have been changed by Jesus' story of the father of the prodigal son?

多少刻骨的仇恨和受伤的尊严都被耶稣荡子回头的故事所治愈？

What is extremely clear though is that from this first murder Lecter would grow up to become a prodigal murderer and cannibal, until his capture in 1975.

但非常清楚的是，从这起第起谋杀案开始，莱克特逐渐成长为个挥霍无度的杀人犯和食人者，直到他于 1975 年被捕。

The absolute solitude in which they lived intensified their reciprocal thoughts; yet some might have said that it had the disadvantage of consuming their mutual affections at a fearfully prodigal rate.

他们这种全然与世隔绝的生活更加深了他们之间感情的交流；不过有人也许说，这的生活也有不利之处，他们相互之间的感情以种可怕的速度耗掉。

Even among borrowers, therefore, not the people in the world most famous for frugality, the number of the frugal and industrious surpasses considerably that of the prodigal and idle.

因此，即使在借款人中，节俭和勤劳的人数也大大超过了挥霍和闲散的人数，而不是世界上以节俭闻名的人群。

In times of economic woe, when normal patterns of consumption and investment are frozen, prodigal government spending can sometimes be the only way to break the vicious circle of declining demand and shrinking employment.

在经济困难时期，常规的消和投资模式陷入僵局，慷慨的政府开支有时候可能是打破需求下滑、失业率上升这个恶性循环的唯途径。

Where the legal rate of interest, on the contrary, is fixed but a very little above the lowest market rate, sober people are universally preferred, as borrowers, to prodigals and projectors.

相反，在法定利率固定但略高于最低市场利率的情况下，清醒的人作为借款人普遍受到青睐，而不是子和投机者。