| 词汇 | lotus-eater |
| 释义 | lotus-eater noun[ C ] uk /ˈləʊ.təsˌiː.tər/ us /ˈloʊ.t̬əsˌiː.t̬ɚ/ someone who has a very comfortable, lazy life and does not worry about anything生活安逸者，无忧无虑者 Laziness and lazy people bludger bone idleidiom bum around CBA clock-watcher deadbeat indolent indolently layabout lazily laziness lie shirker skiver slacker slackness slob unambitious vegetable work-shy Examples of lotus-eaterlotus-eater About it were chairs and divans that would have satisfied a lotus-eater. From Project Gutenberg If one has been a lotus-eater all summer, he must turn gravel-eater in the fall and winter. From Project Gutenberg We may be happy for a brief while, with the brief happiness of a lotus-eater; but it cannot last--it cannot last! From Project Gutenberg He was still lost in the dreams of the lotus-eater when he heard something that resembled the rattling of his own noisy car. From Project Gutenberg It was the air breathed by the lotus-eaters, when they dreamed, and wandered no more. From Project Gutenberg His troubles were for the moment being assuaged in the effortless indolence of the lotus-eaters. From Project Gutenberg He had been telling himself that he was loyal, and now he realized that he was drifting like the lotus-eaters. From Project Gutenberg She was dreaming already with her eyes open, and she sank into number six in a lotus-eater's reverie. From Project Gutenberg The lotus-eaters watched the gleaming river as it--seaward. From Project Gutenberg Do they, too, like human lotus-eaters, seek oblivion and exaltation through the subtle narcotic thus imbibed? From Project Gutenberg Indeed, they became regular lotus-eaters. From Project Gutenberg 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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