extravagance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 奢侈， 浪费，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here then are fancy and extravagance mixed with truth and information.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You smile at the extravagance of your dream, and yet you feel that this tissue of absurdity con-tained some real idea, something that belongs to your true life, something that exists, and has always existed, in your heart.
-- Some people lie, if you like to put it so, out of pure friendship, in order to amuse their fellows; but when a man makes use of extravagance in order to show his disrespect and to make clear how the intimacy bores him, it is time for a man of honour to break off the said intimacy., and to teach the offender his place.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After solemn argument, this point (with others of a technical nature, whose humorous extravagance it would be difficult to exaggerate) was referred to the judges for their decision, Sampson being meantime removed to his former quarters.
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：
-- We had looked upon it then as an extravagance to dine in a shabby Italian restaurant in the Westminster Bridge Road.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fair-ly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situa-tion, low and sheltered its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight and its abundance of timber in rows and avenues, which neither fashion nor extravagance had rooted up. The house was larger than Hartfield, and totally unlike it, covering a good deal of ground, rambling and irregular, with many com-436 Emmafortable, and one or two handsome rooms. It was just what it ought to be, and it looked what it was and Emma felt an increasing respect for it, as the residence of a family of such true gentility, untainted in blood and understanding. Some faults of temper John Knightley had; but Isabella had connected herself unexceptionably.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their eyes burned in their heads; their feet grew speedier and lighter; their whole soul was bound up in that fortune, that whole lifetime of extravagance and pleasure, that lay waiting there for each of them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The extravagance and general profligacy which he scrupled not to lay at Mr. Wickham's charge, exceedingly shocked her; the more so, as she could bring no proof of its injustice.
-- Their other aunt also visit- ed them frequently, and always, as she said, with the design of cheering and heartening them up though, as she never came without reporting some fresh instance of Wickham's extravagance or irregularity, she seldom went away without leaving them more dispirited than she found them.
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