1. 语义梯度差异
Amenity（便利设施）强调功能性价值，指提升基础生活品质的配套设施，如：
-- 小区内的健身器材（fitness amenities）
-- 机场的充电站（travel amenities）
-- 酒店的免费WiFi（basic amenities）
Luxury（奢华设施）体现超额享受，指超越实用需求的奢侈配置，如：
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word-vs-word-cn
【Amenity】 and 【luxury】 both denote something (as an object, a feature, a quality, or an experience) that gives refined or exquisite pleasure or is exceedingly pleasing to the mind or senses.
【Amenity】 typically implies a delightful mildness, gentleness, or softness, especially in contrast to an uncomfortable or distressing harshness, roughness, or crudeness.
- many English go to the Riviera in the winter because of the 【amenity】 of its climate
It may imply no more than a vague conducing to physical or material comfort or convenience.
- every 【amenity】 . . . including... showers, central heating, and first-class cuisine
—H. G. Smith
【Luxury】 stresses keen, often voluptuous, enjoyment and unalloyed gratification of the mind or senses, usually without a special suggestion of opulence in the thing enjoyed or sensuality in the pleasure.
- and learn the 【luxury】 of doing good
—Goldsmith - Mark decided to walk back by the road . . . instead of indulging himself in the 【luxury】 of once more rejoicing in the solitude of the green lanes
—Mackenzie - a dressing room with a marble bath that made cleanliness a 【luxury】 instead of one of the sternest of the virtues
—Shaw
