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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arrived there, the luxury of the rooms seemed to inspire them with a kind of respect, not unmixed with alarm.
-- I took her a shawl one day, the like of which she might never have seen, although she did live in luxury and she gave it away to her maid, Katia.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not help, too, rolling his large eyes round him as he ate, and chuckling with the possibility that he might one day be lord of all this scene of almost unimaginable luxury and splendor.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But this was a luxury of sensation that could not en-dure; I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the damp grass in the sick impotence of despair.
-- The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But dear Mrs. Pocket," said Mrs. Coiler, "after her early disappointment (not that dear Mr. Pocket was to blame in that), requires so much luxury and elegance--""Yes, ma'am," I said, to stop her, for I was afraid she was going to cry.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was surprised to find corruption grown so high and so quick in that empire, by the force of luxury so lately intro-duced; which made me less wonder at many parallel cases in other countries, where vices of all kinds have reigned so much longer, and where the whole praise, as well as pillage, has been engrossed by the chief commander, who perhaps had the least title to either.
-- But, in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of the males, and the vanity of the females, we sent away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries, whence, in re-320 Gulliver's Travelsturn, we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said, in a luxury of emotion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Naturally a retired and simple man, he had shown no particular sense of being ruined at the time when that calamity fell upon him, further than that he left off washing himself when the shock was announced, and never took to that luxury any more.
-- 'What I envy you, sir, is,' said Mr Rugg, 'allow me to take your hat we are rather short of pegs I'll put it in the corner, nobody will tread on it there What I envy you, sir, is the luxury of your own feelings.
-- I belong to a profession in which that luxury is sometimes denied us.'
-- Having dried them, and indulged in the harmless luxury of a sob and a sniff, he put it up again.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You're a blighted being, and decidedly cross today be-cause you can't sit in the lap of luxury all the time.
-- 'I understand, Mother, and quite agree, but I'm disap-pointed about Meg, for I'd planned to have her marry Teddy by-and-by and sit in the lap of luxury all her days.
-- You hate hard work, and you'll marry some rich man, and come home to sit in the lap of luxury all your days,' said Jo.
-- The dream of filling home with comforts, giving Beth everything she wanted, from strawberries in winter to an organ in her bedroom, going abroad herself, and always having more than enough, so that she might indulge in the luxury of charity, had been for years Jo's most cherished castle in the air.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They reached town by three o'clock the third day, glad to be released, after such a journey, from the confinement of a carriage, and ready to enjoy all the luxury of a good fire.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If she could but stroll up yon broad walk, cross that rich entrance-way, which to her was of the beauty of a jewel, and sweep in grace and luxury to possession and command--oh!how quickly would sadness flee; how, in an instant, would the heartache end.
-- Her mind delighted itself with scenes of luxury and refinement, situations in which she was the cynosure of all eyes, the arbiter of all fates.
-- He could not fail to notice the signs of affluence and luxury on every hand.
-- The most inviting stories of pleasure and luxury had been told of places and individuals here.
-- The common run of conventional, perfunctory notices of the doings of society, which she could scarcely refrain from scanning each day, had given her a distinct idea of the gorgeousness and luxury of this wonderful temple of gastronomy.
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