prodigality 中文意思是什麼

prodigality 解釋
n. 名詞 1. 浪費,揮霍;奢侈。
2. 慷慨;豪爽。
3. 豐富,大量。

  1. Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality.

    笑聲每時每刻都變得越來越容易,毫無節制地傾瀉出來。
  2. If time were of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality

    如果說一切事物中時間是最寶貴的,那麼浪費時光可能是最大的浪費。
  3. She obeyed like one in a dream, and when she could affix no more he himself tucked a bud or two into her hat, and heaped her basket with others in the prodigality of his bounty

    她依從著他,就像在睡夢里一樣,她的胸前戴不下了,但是德貝維爾還是又摘了一兩個玫瑰的花蕾插進她的帽子里,而且還十分慷慨大方地在她的籃子里堆了一些其它的花朵。
  4. This liaison, of which the true origin and true motive were known to no one, gave rise here to a great deal of talk, since the duke, known hitherto as an enormously wealthy man, now began to acquire a name for the prodigality

    他們這種關系,別人既不知道真正的緣由,也不知道確切的動機,所以在巴黎引起了很大的轟動。因為公爵曾以他的萬貫家財而著稱,現在又以揮霍無度而聞名了。
  5. Can i not, like pasta, malibran, grisi, acquire for myself what you would never have given me, whatever might have been your fortune, a hundred or a hundred and fifty thousand livres per annum, for which i shall be indebted to no one but myself ; and which, instead of being given as you gave me those poor twelve thousand francs, with sour looks and reproaches for my prodigality, will be accompanied with acclamations, with bravos, and with flowers

    譯注那樣,憑我自己的能力去獲得您永遠不會給我的一切嗎?當您一年給我那可憐的一萬二千法郎零用錢的時候,你總是用不高興的臉色,還要責備我浪費,那時,我自己一年就可以賺十萬或十五萬里弗,拿到那筆錢,我不必感激旁人,只要感激自己就行了,而且那些錢還會伴隨著喝采歡呼和鮮花一同來。
  6. Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

    人們越來越無節制地發出笑聲,隨便一句打趣的話也會引起全場一陣鬨笑。
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