extravagance

英[ik'strævəgəns]美[ik'strævəgəns]

n.
1.[U] 奢侈；挥霍；铺张浪费
2.[C] 奢侈品
3.[U,C] 富丽堂皇；豪华；奢华

形容词：extravagant

同：	[n.] extravagancy, high life, prodigality, profligacy

It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance,but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.
由俭入奢易，由奢入俭难。收藏
Catherine might suffer as much by your economy as by your extravagance.
不管你是分文计较地节省还是大手大脚地滥花，都会使凯瑟琳同样不舒服。收藏
I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.
"我宁可让我的人民笑我的节省,也不愿让他们为我的奢侈而哭泣"收藏
She resumed all the fantastic extravagance of deportment after some transient touch of melancholy had banished for an instant
刚才的一丝凄凉之感立即消散，她恢复了毫无节制的疯狂举动。收藏
I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance. ——Josiah Charles Stamp
我宁可让我的人民笑我节省，也不愿让他们为我的奢侈而哭泣。——奥斯卡二世收藏

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the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
- we were surprised by the extravagance of his description
[同] extravagance, extravagancy
the trait of spending extravagantly
[同] extravagance, prodigality, profligacy

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