Superfluity

(n.) A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth.

(n.) The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.

(n.) Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury.

布什校对

• Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Socially speaking, Joshua Rigg would have been generally pronounced a superfluity. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He was a superfluity. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Touched by such superfluity of simple confidence in a woman of her mature years, I opened the ample reservoirs of my nature and absorbed it all. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The former, consequently, would be glad to dispose of; and the latter to purchase, a part of this superfluity. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But what madness must it be to _run in debt_ for these superfluities? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It gives a value to their superfluities, by exchanging them for something else, which may satisfy a part of their wants and increase their enjoyments. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• We sell our victuals to the Islands for rum and sugar; the substantial necessaries of life for superfluities. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Could all these people, now employed in raising, making, or carrying superfluities, be subsisted by raising necessaries? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• A rich man lies under a moral obligation to communicate to those in necessity a share of his superfluities. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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