- 1豪華的、奢華的
Luxurious describes things that are very expensive, beautiful, and comfortable — a luxurious hotel, a luxurious car, luxurious sheets. 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.
It is a normal adjective in ads, reviews, and polite speech. It is not street slang, and it is not . 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. 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.
From the word’s history
From Middle English luxurious, from Old French luxurios, from Latin luxuriōsus, from luxuria 'luxury'; luxury + -ous.
經古法文 luxurios 來自拉丁文 luxuria「奢華」。
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
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.
- 2
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 […]
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