记忆方法
1. extra- "outside" + vag- + -ance.
2. => wander outside or beyond.
3. => excessive, extreme; wasteful, lavish.
2. => wander outside or beyond.
3. => excessive, extreme; wasteful, lavish.
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词族 · extravagance
词形变化
英语词源
- extravagance (n.)
- 1640s, "an extravagant act," from French extravagance, from Late Latin extravagantem (see extravagant). Specifically of wasteful spending from 1727. Meaning "quality of being extravagant" is from 1670s. Extravagancy, "a wandering," especially "a wandering from the usual course," is attested from c. 1600, now rare.
权威例句
- 1. Her only extravagance was horses.
- 她唯一的奢侈品就是马。
- 2. Going to the theatre is our only extravagance.
- 去剧院看戏是我们唯一的奢侈享受。
- 3. He's always railing against his wife about her extravagance.
- 他总是责怪妻子奢侈浪费.
- 4. 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.
- 5. His extravagance explains why he is always in debt.
- 他挥霍无度,难怪总是欠债.