A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
奢侈品
Luxury
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
愤怒是一种昂贵的奢侈品，只有有一定收入的人才能沉溺其中。
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
爱情和其他奢侈品一样。除非你买得起，否则你无权拥有它。
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
财富最大的奢侈之处在于，它能让你逃避那么多好的建议。
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
没有一个女人的卓越，哪一所充满奢华的房子会变得繁荣昌盛呢?
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
虽然我喜欢华尔道夫大厦的豪华，但那里的客房服务不提供灵魂食粮。
It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilisation.
做一些没有实际意义的事情是一种奢侈:文明的奢侈。
I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
我认为任何一个被逼着尽自己所能做到最好的人都是有特权的。这是一种奢侈。
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
有些人认为奢侈是贫穷的反义词。它不是。它是粗俗的反义词。
Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.
在合理的范围内，我可以写我喜欢的东西，花多长时间做它是必要的。这是一种超越价格的奢侈。
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.
魅力是那些仍然相信事物本质正确的人的奢侈品。在纯洁和尖桩篱笆里。
A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.
一个把鲜花定价成奢侈品的国家还没有学会文明的首要原则。
We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.
我们没有充裕的时间。我们花钱更多是因为我们的生活方式，但与家人和朋友在一起很重要。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Luxury is a state of mind.
奢侈是一种精神状态。
I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.
我绝对讨厌奢侈。这是我唯一不能忍受的。
Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.
在创造性经济中，游戏是最好的自然资源。孩子们需要更多。这是童年的作品。我们希望从本质上改变这样一种观念，即玩耍不仅是一种奢侈品，而且是孩子们生活的绝对必需品。
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
许多棒球迷把裁判看作是奢侈棒球运动不可避免的祸害，就像汽车的气味一样。
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
你们若不善待穷人，就不能奢侈度日。不，你把钱花在奢侈品上，比给他们更多的好处;因为你将银子花在奢侈品上，就叫他们劳苦，将银子给人，就叫他们闲了。
For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
对我们来说，音乐主要是娱乐世界的一部分，通常是一种奢侈品。