Extravagance

(noun.) excessive spending.

(noun.) the trait of spending extravagantly.

(noun.) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth; 'we were surprised by the extravagance of his description'.

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• And in oligarchical States, from the general spread of carelessness and extravagance, men of good family have often been reduced to beggary? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of the subject never will. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She promised to commit no extravagance, to be docile, and immediately to return. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The royal family was scheming to get farther away from Paris--in order to undo all that had been done, to restore tyranny and extravagance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We wondered at this extravagance of honesty and inquired into the matter. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Those were the days when no one built a new edifice for station purposes; that would have been deemed a fantastic extravagance. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I say, live like our means, without extravagance, and be happy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• No price can be found in the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century, which approaches to the extravagance of these. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It requires great powers, great nicety, to give her playfulness and simplicity without extravagance. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• All that can be said of the extravagance of Plato's proposals is anticipated by himself. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Her figure was slight, and rather above the average height--her gait and actions free from the slightest approach to extravagance. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• An absurd incident described by Edison throws a vivid light on the free-and-easy condition of early railroad travel and on the Southern extravagance of the time. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Penelope had heard Miss Rachel, and I had heard Mr. Betteredge, talk about your extravagance and your debts. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I will go to Hortense if you commit extravagances. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But this freedom, which leads to many curious extravagances of character, is in reality only a state of weakness and dissipation. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But as he in his mockery was even more absurd than she in her extravagances, what could one do but laugh and feel liberated. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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