Luxury
['lʌkʃ(ə)rɪ] or ['lʌɡʒəri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity.
(noun.) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living.
編輯:汤姆--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.
(n.) Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury.
(n.) Lechery; lust.
(n.) Luxuriance; exuberance.
手打:西尔维亚
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Voluptuousness, luxuriousness, sensuality, epicurism.[2]. Pleasure, gratification.[3]. Dainty, treat.
編輯:罗伊
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Effeminacy, epicurism, voluptuousness, wantonness, selfindulgence, softness,animalism, delicacy, dainty, profuseness
ANT:Hardness, asceticism, stoicism, self-denial, hardship
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解釋/意思:
n. free indulgence in rich diet or costly dress or equipage: anything delightful: a dainty: (Shak.) wantonness.—ns. Luxū′riance Luxū′riancy Luxurī′ety.—adj. Luxū′riant exuberant in growth: overabundant.—adv. Luxū′riantly.—v.i. Luxū′riate to be luxuriant: to grow exuberantly: to live luxuriously: to expatiate with delight.—n. Luxuriā′tion the act of luxuriating.—adj. Luxū′rious given to luxury: administering to luxury: furnished with luxuries: softening by pleasure: (Milt.) luxuriant: (Shak.) lustful.—adv. Luxū′riously.—ns. Luxū′riousness; Lux′urist one given to luxury.
編輯:珀尔
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that you are surrounded by luxury, indicates much wealth, but dissipation and love of self will reduce your income. For a poor woman to dream that she enjoys much luxury, denotes an early change in her circumstances.
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例句/造句/用法:
- It is modernly used as a luxury by those who are able to combine with it other means for heating. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Thus he spoke not persuading Cr?sus; for it is true indeed that the Persians before they subdued the Lydians had no luxury nor any good thing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I belong to a profession in which that luxury is sometimes denied us. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Such luxury of grief, however, is only allowed to parlour-boarders. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I could not help feeling, though she mingled her tears with mine, that she had a dreadful luxury in our afflictions. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It belonged in the list of softening, sensuous influences peculiar to this home of Eastern luxury. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I felt as if it must be a fine thing to live in a country where there was such comfort and such luxury as this. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A tax upon tobacco, for example, though a luxury of the poor, as well as of the rich, will not raise wages. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But to break my marriage vow for him--it is too poor a luxury! 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He knew beforehand what the price of his luxury was; he has paid the price. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- It is too dangerous a luxury. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- As she said, she was 'fond of luxury', and her chief trouble was poverty. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Beer and ale, for example, in Great Britain, and wine, even in the wine countries, I call luxuries. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Don't go in for any of those luxuries. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- For money as money I care nothing, but I like luxuries which only money can buy, and therefore desire money. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It is otherwise with taxes upon what I call luxuries, even upon those of the poor. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and its daily luxuries. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- If mere existence, and not happiness, had been the final end of our being, what need of the profuse luxuries which we enjoy? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I could not offer myself to any woman, even if she had no luxuries to renounce. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Consumable commodities, whether necessaries or luxuries, may be taxed in two different ways. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- No,' replied 'Bob Sawyer; 'can't afford expensive luxuries. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Consumable commodities are either necessaries or luxuries. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- All other things I call luxuries, without meaning, by this appellation, to throw the smallest degree of reproach upon the temperate use of them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The child had many more luxuries and indulgences than had been awarded his father. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- All that I possessed of the luxuries of life came from him. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- People in high life have all the luxuries to themselves--among others, the luxury of indulging their feelings. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
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