In the end , however , spendthrift consumers defied the government .

然而，结果是挥霍无度的消费者公然和政府作对。

With its gleaming shopping malls and omnipresent luxury brands , hong kong is an easy place to turn spendthrift .

香港拥有众多金碧辉煌的购物广场，还有无处不在的奢侈品牌，很容易让人变得挥霍无度。

Yet many of asia 's tiger economies seem to have been hit harder than their spendthrift western counterparts .

然而，许多亚洲强势经济体似乎受到了比大肆挥霍的西方国家更严重的打击。

Thus the savings of poor asian farmers have financed the habits of spendthrift westerners .

其结果是，亚洲的贫困农民用他们的存款为习惯挥霍的西方人提供资金。

Yet it was his late father andreas , a spendthrift pasok premier , who presided over the origins of greece 's crisis with a borrowing spree in the 1980s .

然而，正是他的已故的父亲安德里亚，一个挥金如土的社会党总理，在他在位的80年代里借钱挥霍游乐，而那正是希腊危机的起源。