| 词汇 | example_english_luxury |
| 释义 | Examples of luxuryThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Patriotism and communalism were luxuries that they could ill afford now that partition had ruptured so many of their traditional subsistence networks. The only drawback is the exorbitant price tag that comes along with the luxuries. The food, the little luxuries, the attention were far superior to anything he could possibly have had at home. Telephones, televisions, and automobiles were once luxuries for only the very rich, but now many poor people own them. Both directions of this metaphorical inversion make environmental, social, or long-term analysis seem like unaffordable luxuries, for medicine and antiterrorism. The recent availability of fresh meat and vegetables has helped to diversify the diet, but only for the families that can afford such small luxuries. Services hitherto considered luxuries were now advertised widely. Rather, this story exemplifies the moral insignificance of luxuries. Of course, one reason why these major centres dominated the service hierarchy - even for luxuries - was that they were very large. In this sentence, luxuries have suddenly become necessary - there are no longer the two categories of essential and non-essential but pleasant. People with rewarding careers who live in sought after locations, affording luxuries and premium quality products. Indeed, it seems obvious that, with regard to the distribution of luxuries, the type of priority we assign to the badly off does not exist. In fact, she becomes desperate to do anything to regain these luxuries. Milk and meat were only the luxuries of life. He began a playful description, - long, but never tedious; alluring, yet without enthusiasm - a dreamy suggestion of refined delights and luxuries. Historically, empires have viewed excess consumption of luxuries as threatening to their survival. She has succeeded, amassing great hordes of money, acquiring the finest luxuries and earning the envy of her peers. By denying the lower estates luxuries, the sumptuary edicts seem only to have made the townsfolk aspire to greater heights of conspicuous consumption. In other words, the aspirations or even luxuries of one generation become the needs of the next, and so drive the progressive advance of innovation. Governments could argue that poor countries cannot afford such luxuries as education. Their desires did not outstrip the means of satisfaction, and self-sufficiency prevailed, whereas the present was a time when desires for luxuries drained money, sapped discipline, and weakened health. A taste for consumer goods, especially luxuries, made a nation weak, self-indulgent and effeminate, undermining the fighting qualities of its army and the selfdenying virtues necessary for good citizenship. Another concern is that, if these people spend their resources too quickly on luxuries, they may have nothing left to fall back on for more basic items in later life. Not only this, but he would have permitted himself the luxuries of bass clarinet and double bassoon in these four bars, for the only time in the movement. The state systems in the eighteenth century were also major consumers of luxuries and other goods, which imparted a positive economic effect to the regional economy. There would be a less demand for luxuries, but there would be an increased demand for necessities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What we ought to cut off are imported luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no necessity for any of us to drive cars and if we choose to indulge in luxuries, we have to pay for them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Speed is one of the most expensive luxuries of modern times. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The luxuries of to-day are the necessities of to-morrow; and that will be the case in this matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Cars in rural areas are an outstanding example of what were luxuries in one generation becoming necessities in the next. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the luxuries of the beautiful rivers and parks will be for the rich—for those who can afford them for themselves and their children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not concerned with luxuries with which people enliven their life in this country, but mainly with those luxuries purchased abroad. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I venture to say that the tendency to spend money on luxuries is not restricted to any one class. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If you are going to balance your trade budget, absolutely prohibit the importation of those luxuries, as you did in war time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think there ought to be a tax on luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In order to buy extra food and luxuries which we could not get without it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second is to prohibit luxuries, and that will teach us to economise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Everyone will admit that in times of stress the things to go without, are luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that there is really any necessity at all to give up our luxuries in order to pay for these necessities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I quite admit that this is one of the first of the taxes on unnecessary luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What will be the result of these duties on foreign luxuries? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of them are not luxuries and non-essentials. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not now dealing with luxuries, but with necessities which enter into the homes of all the people of this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one would suggest that those articles can be regarded as luxuries, yet their consumption has decreased. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are no longer cutting back on luxuries—we are cutting back on essentials. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The ability to watch television is one of the few luxuries that they are able to afford. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of the things which we export are essential, but many of them, while they are not luxuries, are amenities of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The cost of these luxuries was borne by the company. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The luxuries of yesterday are not merely the necessities of today, but in many cases have shown themselves to be our biggest exports. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Luxuries could, and should, be much more heavily taxed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The man with £100 might spend more on food and the man with £1,000 more on luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are no comforts, no kind of luxuries for them in their old age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We say that those luxuries are not a pressing priority. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the luxuries of opposition is that we, too, can afford to review our policies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has suggested that they cannot tell the difference between ordinary necessities of life and luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think everybody agrees that if you can successfully put a tax upon luxuries it will be an excellent thing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the small luxuries of life that those people will now have to forgo. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As the consultation document said, many people have access to occupational and personal pensions—but those are their nest eggs, not luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The luxuries of yesterday are becoming the necessities of to-day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is the country not being driven to recognise the need at the present moment for doing without luxuries? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Basically, to increase purchase tax on essential clothing and to give a reduction on semi-luxuries is the most astonishing political procedure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have been importing large quantities of luxuries which have eased life and made it more pleasant for those with the bigger incomes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As to the cuts themslves, there can be no objection to the cutting down of such luxuries as boiled ham and other things. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that the new medium rate will help them, but it would be better to forget all about the concept of luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall not be able to afford luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I appreciate the correctness of the approach which seeks to distinguish between luxuries and necessities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a good deal of room for argument whether particular items are luxuries or necessities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a tax allowance to set against the interest paid to have those luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The prohibition of the import of luxuries would be a very difficult matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here were taxes on luxuries, here were taxes paid by the well-to-do. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are told that it can be introduced because the articles with which it is concerned may be described as luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The order does not contain sufficient provision even to permit little luxuries such as taking on an additional couple of apprentices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are importing all sorts of luxuries without any sense of responsibility at all for the restoration of the economic life of that nation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They could be given such things as company cars and numerous luxuries that could make life more pleasant for them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our policy is, and always has been, one of hard work, few luxuries and fair shares. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Turning to electric razors, these, of course are luxuries and could not be regarded in any way as essential. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are a large number of things coming into this country which are absolute luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Reduction of the import of luxuries is certainly one method but not the only one of dealing with adverse exchanges. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There will be a saving of £4 million on petrol, a saving of some £5 million on luxuries, and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one can say that they are luxuries or that their purchase is an illegitimate use of purchasing power which calls for mopping up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In that way one can make people pay for luxuries if they want them, but it must not touch the basic controlled ration. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The demand for luxuries would expand much more than for necessaries if to-morrow by a magic wand everybody's wages were doubled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Last year he employed some months in looking for new luxuries to tax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are told that this is an age when we must economise, and that we have too little money to spend upon luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely the best way of raising money is to impose taxation on imported luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The same considerations do not weigh with regard to luxuries got in from abroad. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Housing, education, hospitals and roads are not luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second principle is that it imposes new taxes only on luxuries and non-necessaries of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If you do not decrease either your luxuries or your savings, where on earth does the money come from? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We met it by taxing great incomes, great fortunes, and the luxuries of all classes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have seen it argued that it would have been preferable to put the indirect taxes on luxuries by means of purchase tax increases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that we can afford the two luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no meat, no bread, no luxuries of any description—just the mere necessities of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People do not spend money on luxuries to tread underfoot. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was astounded to hear him say that we must keep up the price of such commodities because they are luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would not agree that all hats and clothes are luxuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not asking for luxuries, but only for necessities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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