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

这并不是浪子回头般回到新保守主义，从一个简单主义换到另一个。

Well well well, the prodigal son returns.

好啊好啊，浪子回头了。

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样性方面挥霍无度， 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.

人情况总是浪子最爱或守财奴养老金领取者。

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身边。他们热切地欢迎我这个游子归来。这远比我应得还要多。”

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

我父亲，就像基督浪子故事中父亲一样， 会欢迎我。

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

现在浪子不得不照顾自己和他新家， 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，多么奢侈浪费啊！卷子，玉米松饼、小甜面包、鸡蛋饼，滴滴油，每顿饭都有。餐桌一端摆着火腿，另一端是烤鸡。成锅蓝菜炖得酽酽，上面飘着一层放彩油花。青豆在亮晶晶花瓷盘里，堆得像一座小山。

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

但通过明显影射，他证实了安东尼忧郁推断，即浪子孙子在床边会特别不受欢迎。

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.

浪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浪子故事， 浪子在家里和父亲牛羊在一起很开心。

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，一个贵族之家浪子，在他空洞心灵深处感受着作家激荡。

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?

多少刻骨仇恨和受伤尊严都被耶稣荡子回头故事所治愈？

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生活更加深了他们之间感情交；不过有人也许会说，这样生活也有不利之处，他们相互之间感情会以一种可怕速度耗费掉。

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，节俭和勤劳人数也大大超过了挥霍和闲散人数，而不是世界上以节俭闻名人群。

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，常规消费和投资模式会陷入僵局，慷慨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唯一途径。

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情况下，清醒人作为借款人普遍受到青睐，而不是浪子和投机者。