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Luxurious describes things that are very expensive, beautiful, and comfortable — a luxurious hotel, a luxurious car, luxurious sheets.
Luxurious用來形容 describes things that are very expensive, beautiful, and comfortable那些非常昂貴、美麗又舒適的東西——a luxurious hotel豪華飯店、a luxurious car豪華轎車、luxurious sheets豪華床單。
The feeling is soft, rich, and well looked after, not only “high price.” A room can be expensive and still feel cold; luxurious says it also feels good to be in.
The feeling這種感覺 is soft, rich, and well looked after是柔軟、豐厚、被照顧得很好的,not only "high price."不只是「價格高」而已。A room一個房間 can be expensive and still feel cold可以很貴卻感覺冷冰冰;luxurious這個字說的是 says it also feels good to be in待在裡面也讓人感覺很好。
It is a normal adjective in ads, reviews, and polite speech. It is not street slang, and it is not .
It它 is a normal adjective是個普通的形容詞 in ads, reviews, and polite speech用在廣告、評論和客氣的談話裡。It它 is not street slang不是江湖俚語,and it它 is not unkind也不帶惡意。
Though actually, people stretch it: a “luxurious amount of time” just means plenty of time, and a “luxurious silence” means a silence you can enjoy. That stretch is common and accepted.
Though actually不過其實,people stretch it大家會把它用得更寬:a "luxurious amount of time"「luxurious amount of time」 just means plenty of time只是指很多時間,and a "luxurious silence"而「luxurious silence」 means a silence you can enjoy指的是一種讓人享受的寂靜。That stretch這種延伸用法 is common and accepted很常見,也被接受。
Do not mix it up with luxuriant, which is mainly for plants and hair growing thick. And do not save luxurious only for palaces; a small bathroom with thick towels can be luxurious too.
Do not mix it up with luxuriant不要跟luxuriant搞混,which is mainly for plants and hair growing thick那個字主要是用在植物和頭髮長得茂密。And do not save luxurious only for palaces而且不要把luxurious只留給宮殿用;a small bathroom with thick towels一間有厚毛巾的小浴室 can be luxurious too也可以是luxurious的。
組成From Latin lūxuriōsus, via French; in English it also looks like luxury + -ous (“full of”).
同家族的字
- luxurythe noun this adjective belongs with
- luxuriouslythe adverb: in a luxurious way
- luxuriatethe verb: to enjoy rich comfort
- luxuriantsame old root; now mostly “growing thick”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
luxuriousadj/lʌɡˈʒʊəɹi.əs/
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Very fine in quality and comfortable.
- a luxurious hotel suite
- With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.
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datedEnjoying the pleasures of luxury, accustomed to luxury.
- Invalids, and luxurious persons, require more artificial arrangements for travelling on the camel.
- When one looks at the elegantly dressed people round the gaming table, who perhaps laugh at everything which impresses other people with awe, who scoff at the Church and the Bible, one could scarcely think it possible that these enlightened, pleasure-loving, luxurious men of the world, carry on in secret, cabalistic nonsense, turning over cards, fortune telling, studying the significance of signs and dreams […]
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。