voluptuary如何读

英:[vəˈlʌptʃuəri]

美:[vəˈlʌptʃueri]

voluptuary是什么意思

  • n.酒色之徒
  • adj.沉迷酒色的

voluptuary自然拼读

vo·lup·tu·ar·y

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voluptuary变形

复数:voluptuaries

voluptuary英英释义

Noun

1. a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses

Adjective

1. furnishing gratification of the senses;

"an epicurean banquet"

"enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"

"Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"

"a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"

voluptuary词源中文解释

大约1600年(名词和形容词),源自法语 voluptuaire,直接源自拉丁语 voluptuarius,早期为 voluptarius,意为“愉悦的,带来享受的; 热衷于享乐的,奢侈的”,源自 voluptas “快乐”(参见 voluptuous)。

voluptuary词源英文解释

The first known use of voluptuary was circa 1610

voluptuary 例句

1 They deplored him as a “low voluptuary,” called him a “degraded, unclean thing.”

2 Certain minds are satisfied with the fantasmagoria of their intelligence, whereas the voluptuary finds happiness only in the pleasure of realisation.

3 Certainly there was personal enmity between Hamilton and the bankrupt “voluptuary” he called Burr.

4 In his acting, Mr. Duchovny has certainly played his fair share of liars, most notoriously as the voluptuary scribe Hank Moody on the Showtime series “Californication,” which ended its seven-season run last year.

5 To demonstrate that the American woman, when she has all the opportunities which health, wealth, and leisure can bestow, is content to become a mere quick-witted, shallow voluptuary?

6 She rejoined: “Wilt thou send me again to this old voluptuary?”

7 Thus, the voluptuary Baron, when he had played one of Corneille's heroes, himself was one for some days.

8 Here was a voluptuary seeking for torture and desiring pain after having wallowed in every sensual pleasure....

9 Little patches of cultivation, labored to the perfection of a garden, varied the scene, and beautiful cattle lay lazily under the giant trees, solemn voluptuaries of the peaceful happiness of their lot.

10 Julián, a hacking, aging voluptuary, chastises a couple he knows for avoiding him in public because of their inability to face his illness.

11 He had heard the stories—unsavoury ones, such as inevitably cling to men, whatever their business or social standing, who acquire the whispered reputation of the voluptuary.

12 He was a man of much mind and of large ideas, as well as a man with the tastes of a voluptuary, and the means, for a time, of a Count of Monte Cristo.

13 Often since that morning after the surrender of Bristol had the princely voluptuary given thought to the “bit of saucy sweetness, with cheeks all roses,” he had seen passing out of its gates for Gloucester.

14 Here," says Irving, "is everything to delight a southern voluptuary: fruits, flowers, fragrance, green arbours and myrtle hedges, delicate air and gushing water.

15 He was student, voluptuary, soldier, prisoner, author, diplomatist, exile, pauper, courtier, democrat, orator, statesman, traitor.

16 European critics, like his contemporaries, mostly consider him an infidel and a voluptuary �of like mind with Sardanapalus.�

17 Arrayed in magnificent robes typical of his godhead, and surrounded by an atmosphere of flowers and incense, he led the life of a voluptuary for the space of nearly a year.

18 A voluptuary in love, he professes not that delicacy which refines all its joys.

19 So far the system would seem to suit the inclinations of the most thorough-going voluptuary.

20 He was by no means the “voluptuary” described by Macaulay.

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