lotus-eater / ˈloʊ təsˌi tər /

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lotus-eater 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
  2. a person who leads a life of dreamy, indolent ease, indifferent to the busy world; daydreamer.

更多lotus-eater例句

  1. But two things are clear in this tail-eater of a case: First, there seems to be plenty of guilt but hardly a criminal in sight.
  2. The Lotus and the Storm turns out to be a grand, haunted melodrama with elements of camp, delivered in fragmentary reveries.
  3. When it comes to food, are you an adventurous, nose-to-tail kind of eater?
  4. It is messy enough to be fork-food for all but the most dexterous eater.
  5. The Daily Beast found out with the help of nationally ranked competitive eater Eric ‘Badlands’ Booker.
  6. In the old days every great man kept a toad-eater; sometimes his functions were highly paid—Wolff's are, I fancy.
  7. Realm of enchantment, break your mystic spell, Land of the lotus, smiling land farewell!
  8. We here saw an opium-eater, lying stretched out upon a mat on the floor.
  9. The little insect-eater chittered in alarm and dashed off to safety across the highway.
  10. Our friend Robert the Eater was one of the communiers sent to Paris three years ago to secure our charter.