extravagant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 奢侈的; 过分的; 放肆的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Scrooge's nephew laughed in this way: holding his sides, rolling his head, and twisting his face into the most extravagant contortions: Scrooge's niece, by marriage, laughed as heartily as he.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How the evi-dence that had been warped and wrested from the young lady, whose anguish in giving it they had witnessed, came to nothing, involving the mere little innocent gallantries and politenesses likely to pass between any young gentleman and young lady so thrown together; with the exception of that reference to George Washington, which was altogether too extravagant and impossible to be regarded in any other light than as a monstrous joke.
-- Such vapouring, combined with the extravagant plots of Monseigneur for the restoration of a state of things that had utterly exhausted itself, and worn out Heaven and earth as well as itself, was hard to be endured without some remon-strance by any sane man who knew the truth.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Leora would have enjoyed small extravagant dinners.
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：
-- Though his means were adequate to the needs of himself and his wife, he certainly had no money to waste; but now he was wantonly extravagant in the purchase of delicacies, out of season and dear, which might tempt Strickland's capricious appetite.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merely looking at me with extravagant slyness, and notwaiting for any reply, she continued, without drawing 313breath'There!If ever any scapegrace was trimmed and touched upto perfection, you are, Steerforth.
-- Thefact is, Copperfield, I was unable to repurchase them at the time oftheir seizure; in the first place, because the broker, having an ideathat I wanted them, ran the price up to an extravagant extent; and,in the second place, because, I- hadn't any money.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hope I should know better,' he replied; 'no, depend upon it, (with a gallant bow,) that in addressing Mrs. Weston I should understand whom I might praise without any dan-ger of being thought extravagant in my terms.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was conscious of having brought about this situation by a series of actions done as by one in an extravagant dream; of following that idea as to method, which had burst upon her in the hall with glaring obviousness, by gliding to the top of the stairs, assuring herself by listening to the heavy breathing of her maids that they were asleep, gliding down again, turning the handle of the door within which the young girl lay, and deliberately setting herself to do what, if she had anticipated any such undertaking at night and alone, would have horrified her, but which, when done, was not so dreadful as was the conclusive proof of her husband's conduct which came with knowing beyond doubt the last chapter of Fanny's story.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of all the wild extravagant theories!"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were penguins, so agile in the water, heavy and awkward as they are on the ground; they were uttering harsh cries, a large assembly, sober in gesture, but extravagant in clamour.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The party was gay and extravagant in appearance, everybody had put on evening dress except Birkin and Joshua Mattheson.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of reward-ing merit, great abilities, eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for em-ployments persons qualified to exercise them, with many other wild, impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, 'that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational, which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.'
-- 'That the system of living contrived by me, was unrea-sonable and unjust; because it supposed a perpetuity of youth, health, and vigour, which no man could be so fool-ish to hope, however extravagant he may be in his wishes.
-- 'That wine was not imported among us from foreign countries to supply the want of water or other drinks, but because it was a sort of liquid which made us merry by put-ting us out of our senses, diverted all melancholy thoughts, begat wild extravagant imaginations in the brain, raised our hopes and banished our fears, suspended every office of reason for a time, and deprived us of the use of our limbs, till we fell into a profound sleep; although it must be con-fessed, that we always awaked sick and dispirited; and that the use of this liquor filled us with diseases which made our lives uncomfortable and short.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is a dissipated, extravagant idler.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The responsive Bleeding Hearts would then gather round the Defaulter whom he had just abandoned, and the most extravagant rumours would circulate among them, to their great comfort, touching the amount of Mr Merdle's ready money.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- .. 'John, dear, I'm ashamed to show you my book, for I've really been dreadfully extravagant lately.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is nothing extravagant in THEIR housekeeping, I dare say.'
-- Every girl in or near Meryton was out of her senses about him for the first two months; but he never distin-guished HER by any particular attention; and, consequently, after a moderate period of extravagant and wild admiration, her fancy for him gave way, and others of the regiment, who treated her with more distinction, again became her favou-rites.'
-- It had always been evident to her that such an income as theirs, under the direction of two persons so extravagant in their wants, and heedless of the future, must be very in-sufficient to their support; and whenever they changed their quarters, either Jane or herself were sure of being applied to for some little assistance towards discharging their bills.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 12As Elinor and Marianne were walking together the next morning the latter communicated a piece of news to her sister, which in spite of all that she knew before of Marianne's imprudence and want of thought, surprised her by its extravagant testimony of both.
-- I am sure I am not extravagant in my demands.
-- The world had made him extravagant and vain Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish.
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