extravagance
英 [ɪkˈstrævəɡəns]
美 [ɪkˈstrævəɡəns]
n. 奢侈; 挥霍; 铺张浪费; 奢侈品; 富丽堂皇; 豪华; 奢华
复数:extravagances
GREIELTSTEM8
Collins.1 / BNC.13942 / COCA.17144
牛津词典
noun
- 奢侈;挥霍;铺张浪费
the act or habit of spending more money than you can afford or than is necessary
- 奢侈品
something that you buy although it costs a lot of money, perhaps more than you can afford or than is necessary
- Going to the theatre is our only extravagance.
去剧院看戏是我们唯一的奢侈享受。
- 富丽堂皇;豪华;奢华
something that is impressive or noticeable because it is unusual or extreme
- the extravagance of Strauss's music
施特劳斯音乐作品的富丽堂皇
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 奢侈;铺张;浪费
Extravagance is the spending of more money than is reasonable or than you can afford.
- ...gross mismanagement and financial extravagance...
严重的管理不善和资金浪费 - When the company went under, tales of his extravagance surged through the industry.
公司破产后,有关他铺张浪费的种种传闻传遍了整个行业。
- N-COUNT 奢侈品
An extravagance is something that you spend money on but cannot really afford.
- Her only extravagance was horses...
她唯一的奢侈品就是马。 - Why waste money on such extravagances?
为什么把钱浪费在这些奢侈品上呢?
双语例句
- When the company went under, tales of his extravagance surged through the industry.
公司破产后,有关他铺张浪费的种种传闻传遍了整个行业。
- Her only extravagance was horses
她唯一的奢侈品就是马。
- Why waste money on such extravagances?
为什么把钱浪费在这些奢侈品上呢?
- His income allows of no extravagance in his way of living.
他的收入不允许他生活奢侈。
- Sponging and taking more than one's share and extravagance and waste on the part of cadres must be banned.
杜绝干部多吃多占和铺张浪费。
- His extravagance drained all his fortune.
他挥霍无度,过着金迷纸醉的生活,耗尽了他的财产。
- He has been used to extravagance.
他是大手大脚过惯了的。
- In some places, rich people ask others to cry in funerals for waste and extravagance.
在一些地方,有钱人请人代为哭丧,是为了讲排场,摆阔气。
- Mr. pearson's income allows of no extravagance in his way of living.
皮尔逊先生的收入不允许他过奢侈的生活。
- Economy the poor man's mints; extravagance the rich man's pitfall.
节约是穷人的造币厂,浪费是富人的陷阱。
- Extravagance will be a problem.
铺张浪费将会是个大问题。
- We must oppose the practice of extravagance.
我们必须反对铺张浪费的做法。
- We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
我们对亏欠铺张一些东西,因为节俭和奇遇很少走在一起。
- Antique porcelain, an extravagance we should have resisted;
古董瓷器这种我们应该抵制的奢侈品;
- My father rather gave me snuff about my extravagance, but I was prepared for that.
我父亲对我的铺张浪费大加谴责,不过我早就有了思想准备。
- Well-a little extravagance now and again do not do harm. I like taking you to nice place.
这个-偶尔奢侈一下是无妨的。我喜欢带你到讲究的地方来。
- I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.
我宁可我的人民笑我的节省,也不愿让他们为我的奢侈而哭泣。
- What an extravagance! I suppose you broke it off.
多么奢侈啊!我猜想是你提出分手的。
- He would have been criticised for recklessness, extravagance and amateurism.
人们会批评他太鲁莽、太浪费、太业余。
- A propensity to extravagance [ for gambling] to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree.
奢华[赌博]的癖好以奢侈的方式或达到奢侈的程度。
- The quality of being extravagant. We can't do with such extravagance and waste.
浪费,铺张奢侈的性质我们不能容忍这种铺张浪费。
- Extravagance and vanity had made him coldhearted and selfish.
放荡和虚荣使他变得残忍自私。
- Extravagance ate up his inheritance.
奢侈耗尽了他所得之遗产。
- His wife ′ s extravagance soon bankrupted him.
他妻子的奢侈生活很快就使他破产了。
- It's the last extravagance we'll be able to indulge in this year.
这是我今年所能买的最后一件奢侈品。
- The great evil of inflation is largely the result of government extravagance and waste.
通货膨胀这一大灾难主要是政府奢侈浪费所造成的后果。
- Celebrations can smack of complacency, laziness, extravagance and self-indulgence.
庆祝可能带有自满、懒散、挥霍和自我放纵的意味。
- Such extravagance will surely put him in Queer Street.
这种奢侈一定会使他陷入经济上的困境。
- Chocolate is my greatest extravagance.
巧克力是我最大的奢侈品。
- The fortune he inherited gradually dwindled to a few hundred pounds as the result of his extravagance.
由于挥霍无度,他继承的那一笔钱财逐渐减少到只有几百英镑了。
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