wastrel 浪荡子，二流子；狐朋狗友的英语翻译参考这个

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这个单词wastrel文学性比较强，很多描写下层社会的文学作品会出现。西门庆的朋友们就是这个单词的描写：
His friends and acquaintances were wastrels and spongers who spent all their lives in amusing themselves at other people’s expense.

wastrel
/ˈweıstrəl/
noun , pl   -rels [  count  ]
   literary   : a person who wastes time, money, etc.
   a lazy wastrel

wastrel
wast·rel / ˈweistrəl /
noun   (literary) a lazy person who spends their time and / or money in a careless and stupid way
   花花公子；浪荡子；二流子

was∙trel
/ ˈwestrəl ; ˈweɪstrəl /
◙noun [C] [literary]
1. a lazy person who does not try to achieve anything in life
• 浪荡子，二流子

NOUN:
1. A person who spends money or resources wastefully: prodigal, profligate, scattergood, spendthrift, waster. See [size=-1]SAVE.
2. A self-indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity: bum1, drone1, fain閍nt, good-for-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, ne'er-do-well, no-good, slugabed, sluggard. Informal : do-little, do-nothing, lazybones, slug2. Slang : slouch. See [size=-1]INDUSTRIOUS.

was·trel
I. \ˈwāstrəl sometimes ˈwäs-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: waste (II) + -rel (as in scoundrel)
1. dialect England : a piece of waste land beside a road
2.
a. : something rejected or discarded as useless or imperfect
  < wastrels from the workshops of neolithic peoples — A.H.Keane >
  < in the first thinning only the wastrels and dead trees are removed — John Simpson >
b. : an emaciated and unhealthy animal
3.
a. : good-for-nothing, profligate
  < was regarded as essentially a wastrel and, given the opportunity, a Grade A guttersnipe — Stanley Walker >
b. : vagabond, waif
  < the girlish wastrel who had drifted into the house — Harper's >
4. : one that wastes : spendthrift, waster
< a spendthrift and wastrel of the world's stored energy — W.P.Webb >
II. adjective
1. : rejected as defective : worthless
2. : wasting or going to waste : spendthrift
< the end of his now wastrel ways — Maristan Chapman >


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