splurge

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splurge /splɜːdʒ $ splɜːrdʒ/ verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT] informal

SPEND MONEYto spend more money than you can usually afford 乱花钱，挥霍 SYN splash out

splurge (something) on something

Within a couple of months, I’d splurged about £2,500 on clothes.

就在几个月时间里，我买衣服花掉了 2,500 英镑。

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—splurge noun [countableC]

Examples from the Corpus

splurge• The 11 official sponsors are expected to splurge a further f lOOm between them on marketing.• If you want to splurge a little more, a compact-disc changer is available for $ 595.• Within a couple of months I'd splurged about £2,500 on all sorts of high-fashion clothes.• Canned salmon sold at eleven cents a can, and Aunt Pat splurged now and then and served fried salmon cakes.• We splurged on an expensive hotel in Chicago.• The best way is to work out a weekly budget and avoid the temptation to splurge out at the beginning of term.

Origin splurge

(1800-1900) Perhaps from splash + surge

splurge verb

Chinese

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