luxury是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 奢侈, 奢侈品，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal stove, made of old bricks, was a grey-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to finances public, because Monseigneur could not make anything at all of them, and 147must consequently let them out to somebody who could; as to finances private, because Farmer-Generals were rich, and Monseigneur, after generations of great luxury and expense, was growing poor.
-- He knew beforehand what the price of his luxury was; he has paid the price.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this room, for which excuse was needed, was more full of luxury than any in which Dolly had ever stayed, a luxury that reminded her of the best hotels abroad.
-- All she had seen in entering the house and walking through it, and all she saw now in her room, gave her an impression of wealth and sumptuousness and of that modern European luxury of which she had only read in English novels, but had never seen in Russia and in the country.
-- In the nursery the luxury which had impressed Dolly in the whole house struck her still more.
-- The dinner, the dining room, the service, the waiting at table, the wine, and the food, were not simply in keeping with the general tone of modern luxury throughout all the house, but seemed even more sumptuous and modern.
-- Darya Alexandrovna watched this luxury which was novel to her, and as a good housekeeper used to managing a household--although she never dreamed of adapting anything she saw to her own household, as it was all in a style of luxury far above her own manner of living--she could not help scrutinizing every detail, and wondering how and by whom it was all done.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Leora had been snuggling beside him in the unusual luxury of a taxicab.
-- "Now bang it, Leora, here when I DO have the first chance in eleven thousand years to think about you, and I come right out frankly and admit how slack I've been-- And planning to send you flowers--" "You look here, Sandy Arrowsmith!Quit bullying me!You want the luxury of harrowing yourself by thinking what a poor, bawling, wretched, story-book wife I am.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not help feeling, though she mingled her tears withmine, that she had a dreadful luxury in our afflictions.
-- He was as radiant, as ifhis chair, his asthma, and the failure of his limbs, were the variousbranches of a great invention for enhancing the luxury of a pipe.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings, Lords of the earth!their luxury and ease.
-- My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings, Lords of the earth!their luxury and ease.
-- 'This is the luxury of a large party,' said she: 'one can get near every body, and say every thing.
-- Certainly I had been accustomed to every luxury at Maple Grove; but I did assure him that two carriages were not necessary to my happiness, nor were spacious apart-ments.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel then remembered that he had left the two dogs on the hill eating a dead lamb (a kind of meat he usually kept from them, except when other food ran short), and concluding that the young one had not finished his meal, he went indoors to the luxury of a bed, which latterly he had only enjoyed on Sundays.
-- Poor Gabriel's soul was fed with a luxury of content by having her over him, her eyes critically regarding his skilful shears, which apparently were going to gather up a piece of the flesh at every close, and yet never did so.
-- Yet grief came to her rather as a luxury than as the scourge of former times.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the delights of life in Paris seemed to be implied by this visible and manifest sign of luxury and extravagance.
-- "Good-bye," said the Portuguese, hurrying to the door, as Eugene made his entrance into a dainty little pink-and- gray drawing-room, where luxury seemed nothing more than good taste.
-- The demon of luxury gnawed at his heart, greed burned in his veins, his throat was parched with the thirst of gold.
-- That was the luxury which Goriot's daughter had loved too well, the gilding, the ostentatious splendor, the unintelligent luxury of the parvenu, the riotous extravagance of a courtesan.
-- On the one hand, he beheld a vision of social life in its most charming and refined forms, of quick-pulsed youth, of fair, impassioned faces invested with all the charm of poetry, framed in a marvelous setting of luxury or art; and, on the other hand, he saw a sombre picture, the miry verge beyond these faces, in which passion was extinct and nothing was left of the drama but the cords and pulleys and bare mechanism.
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