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，常规的消费和投资模式陷入僵局，慷慨的政府开支有候可能是打破需求下滑、失业率上升这个恶性循环的唯一途径。

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

那他对于食物是多么不在乎，多么奢侈浪费啊！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。餐桌的一端摆着火腿，另一端是烤鸡。成锅的蓝菜炖得酽酽的，上面飘着一层放彩的油花。青豆在亮晶晶的花瓷盘里，堆得像一座小山。

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

这并不是浪子回头般的回到新保守主义，从一个简单的主义换到另一个。

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.

他这种全然与世隔绝的生活更加深了他之间感情的交流；不过有人也许说，这样的生活也有不利之处，他相互之间的感情以一种可怕的速度耗费掉。

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。

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。他热切地欢迎我这个游子归来。这远比我应得的还要多。”

And that's also echoed in the tale of the prodigal son, by the way.

这也在浪子回头的故事中得到了体现，顺便一提。

Yeah, the prodigal son, Agent Jones, returns to the Springboks.

是的，浪子回头，特工琼斯重返跳羚队。

You know, Pittsburgh's son, Pat McAfee coming back, prodigal son, big celebration and everything else.

你知道，帕特·麦卡菲是匹兹堡的儿子， 他回来了，就像是浪子回头，举行盛的庆祝活动等等。

He threw himself into the idea with extraordinary good-humour, and was so prodigal of sketches, and so inexhaustible in devices, that he gave an immediate impetus to the rather languid movement, and infected the whole village with his enthusiasm.

他以异常愉快的心情全身心投入到这个想法中，他的素描如此挥霍， 构思如此无穷无尽，以至于他立即推动了相当懒惰的运动，并以他的热情感染了整个村庄。

Sober men, whose projects have been disproportioned to their capitals, are as likely to have neither wherewithal to buy money, nor credit to borrow it, as prodigals, whose expense has been disproportioned to their revenue.

清醒的人，他的项目与他的资本不成比例，很可能既没有必要的资金去买钱，也没有信用来借钱，就像浪子一样，他的支出与他的收入不成比例。

Heidi loved the pictures with the shepherd best of all; they told the story of the prodigal son, and the child would read and re-read it till she nearly knew it all by heart.

海蒂最喜欢与牧羊人合影的照片；他讲了浪子的故事，孩子读了又读，直到几乎把它背熟了。

Boston was cool towards sons, whether prodigals or other, and needed much time to make up its mind what to do for them — time which Adams, at thirty years old, could hardly spare.

波士顿对儿子很冷淡，不管是浪子还是其他，需要很多间来决定为他做什么——亚当斯，30 岁，几乎没有间。

We meet with this admission in the writings of almost every experienced naturalist; or, as Milne Edwards has well expressed it, " Nature is prodigal in variety, but niggard in innovation" .

我在几乎每一位有经验的博物学的著作中都看到这种承认；或者，正如米尔恩·爱德华兹 (Milne Edwards) 所表达的那样， “自然在多样性方面挥霍无度， 但在创新方面却吝啬” 。

There was a time where if you said there was a man who had two sons, people would immediately know, their mind would immediately go, to the parable of the prodigal son.

曾经，如果你说有个男人有两个儿子，人立即想到浪子回头的寓言。

And on the other hand, I'm just like thinking of the prodigal son story of, you know, the dad watching his son coming over the hill and he's, he's so excited.

另一方面， 我想到的是那个浪子回头的故事，你知道的， 父亲看着儿子从山上走过来，他兴奋极了。

And now that you may see that my heart is prodigal of life, nor shrinks from final doom, it is an unholy war you have begun, you man of blood.

现在你该明白我的心是多么慷慨地献身于战斗，毫不畏惧最终的命运。你这嗜血之人， 你所挑起的， 是一场不义之战。

198 Another one that we see quite often in people's houses 199 is the story of the prodigal son, 200 who is welcomed back into the arms of the family.

198 我在人中经常看到的另一幅画是浪子回头的故事，200 他被人重新接纳，拥入怀抱。

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，从这起第一起谋杀案开始，莱克特逐渐成长为一个挥霍无度的杀人犯和食人者，直到他于 1975 年被捕。

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，但我对过去欠下了巨的债务。