Extravagance
[ɪk'strævəg(ə)ns;ek-] or [ɪk'strævəɡəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) excessive spending.
(noun.) the trait of spending extravagantly.
(noun.) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth; 'we were surprised by the extravagance of his description'.
埃迪校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.
(n.) The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands.
弗洛整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Excess, exorbitance, enormity, unreasonableness, preposterousness.[2]. Irregularity, wildness, folly, absurdity.[3]. Prodigality, profusion, waste.
艾拉編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Waste, wastefulness, prodigality, profusion
ANT:Carefulness,[See ECONOMY]
手打:利蒂希娅
例句/造句/用法:
- And in oligarchical States, from the general spread of carelessness and extravagance, men of good family have often been reduced to beggary? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of the subject never will. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- She promised to commit no extravagance, to be docile, and immediately to return. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The royal family was scheming to get farther away from Paris--in order to undo all that had been done, to restore tyranny and extravagance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We wondered at this extravagance of honesty and inquired into the matter. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Those were the days when no one built a new edifice for station purposes; that would have been deemed a fantastic extravagance. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I say, live like our means, without extravagance, and be happy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- No price can be found in the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century, which approaches to the extravagance of these. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It requires great powers, great nicety, to give her playfulness and simplicity without extravagance. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- All that can be said of the extravagance of Plato's proposals is anticipated by himself. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Her figure was slight, and rather above the average height--her gait and actions free from the slightest approach to extravagance. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- An absurd incident described by Edison throws a vivid light on the free-and-easy condition of early railroad travel and on the Southern extravagance of the time. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Penelope had heard Miss Rachel, and I had heard Mr. Betteredge, talk about your extravagance and your debts. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I will go to Hortense if you commit extravagances. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But this freedom, which leads to many curious extravagances of character, is in reality only a state of weakness and dissipation. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But as he in his mockery was even more absurd than she in her extravagances, what could one do but laugh and feel liberated. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
哈伦校對