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词汇 example_english_pursuit-of-pleasure
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pursuit of pleasure

collocation in English

meanings of pursuitand pleasure


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pursuit
noun
uk /pəˈsjuːt/ us /pɚˈsuːt/
an activity that you spend time doing, usually when you are ...
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pleasure
noun[C or U]
uk /ˈpleʒ.ər/ us /ˈpleʒ.ɚ/
enjoyment, happiness, or satisfaction, or something that ...
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Examples of pursuit of pleasure


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Sixty-eighters were not turning away from politics in the pursuitofpleasure : isolated individuals found happiness in collective action.
Humans' goal is neither simple self-perpetuation nor pursuitofpleasure.
The drinkers mock courage by sacrificing themselves not in the path of social virtue, but in the socially useless pursuitofpleasure.
What lesson should we learn from the growing neglect of duty and pursuitofpleasure?
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The body is separated from spirit and purpose and is objectified for the pursuitofpleasure alone.
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Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids commitment, gripped by the pursuitofpleasure for its own sake.
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Garland portrays this time as an era of decayed social and moral values poisoned with cynicism, greed and the pursuitofpleasure.
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Human beings are motivated solely by the pursuitofpleasure and the avoidance of pain.
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The pursuitofpleasure, claim objectors, encourages individuals to commit unrighteous deeds, bring distress, carelessness, levity and suffering later in life.
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While the pursuitofpleasure formed the focal point of the philosophy, this was largely directed to the static pleasures of minimizing pain, anxiety and suffering.
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Surrounded by sycophantic friends, he whiles away his life in pursuitofpleasure, caring little about the huge industrial estate his father has left behind as his legacy.
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