Superfluity
[,suːpə'fluːɪtɪ;,sjuː-] or [,sʊpɚ'flʊəti]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth.
(n.) The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
(n.) Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury.
布什校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Superabundance, excess, redundance, redundancy, exuberance, surfeit, more than enough, enough and to spare.
整理:卢修斯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Redundance, needlessness, supererogation, pleonasm, excess
ANT:Necessity, necessary, requirement, shortcoming, deficiency
整理:温弗雷德
例句/造句/用法:
- Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Socially speaking, Joshua Rigg would have been generally pronounced a superfluity. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He was a superfluity. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Touched by such superfluity of simple confidence in a woman of her mature years, I opened the ample reservoirs of my nature and absorbed it all. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The former, consequently, would be glad to dispose of; and the latter to purchase, a part of this superfluity. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But what madness must it be to _run in debt_ for these superfluities? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It gives a value to their superfluities, by exchanging them for something else, which may satisfy a part of their wants and increase their enjoyments. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- We sell our victuals to the Islands for rum and sugar; the substantial necessaries of life for superfluities. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Could all these people, now employed in raising, making, or carrying superfluities, be subsisted by raising necessaries? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- A rich man lies under a moral obligation to communicate to those in necessity a share of his superfluities. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
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