喜樂美語

You can think of it as wandering out past the line: there is a sensible limit — what you can afford, what is needed, what is true — and this goes well beyond it. Whether that looks reckless or depends on who is watching.

「走出界線之外」。某個地方本來有一條合理的線——你負擔得起的額度、事情實際需要的量、事實所能支持的程度——而 extravagant 描述的是走得遠遠超過那條線的狀態。有意思的是，越線這件事本身是中性的，評價取決於誰在看：帳單來的時候你覺得那是浪費，站在婚禮現場的時候你覺得那是氣派。所以這個字同時能罵人也能讚人，關鍵在說話的人怎麼看那條被跨過的線。

From the word’s history

From Medieval Latin extravagans, present participle of extravagor "to wander beyond", from Latin extra ("beyond") + vagor ("to wander").

來自中世紀拉丁文 extravagans，是 extravagor（走到界外遊蕩）的現在分詞，由 extra（超出、之外）加 vagor（遊蕩）組成。字面就是「晃到界線外面去」。這條字源把現代四個意思一次串起來：花錢越線是奢侈，用量越線是過度，話說得越過事實那條線是誇大，排場越過樸素那條線就成了華麗。同一個 vagor 也在 vague（模糊，原意是「四處飄的」）和 vagrant（流浪者）裡。

Wiktionary, "extravagant" (Middle English extravagaunt, from Medieval Latin extravagans, from Latin extra + vagor)

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  • 名詞extravagance
  • 副詞extravagantly

比較級 more extravagant最高級 most extravagant

原始詞典資料4 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。

extravagantadj/ɪkˈstɹævəɡənt/

  • 1

    Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.

    • The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.
  • 2

    Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.

    • extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
    • There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
  • 3

    Exorbitant

    • According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
  • 4

    Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.

    • an extravagant man
    • extravagant expense

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。