释义 |
ˈpleasure-ˌseeker One who seeks pleasure; spec. a holiday-maker.
1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 438 Pleasure-seekers at sixpence per head. 1846Swell's Night Guide 14 At all hours of the night, the pleasure-seeker may gain admission. 1852Mundy Our Antipodes (1857) 17 Select parties of pleasure-and-oyster seekers may be seen proceeding by water or land. 1894Hall Caine Manxman v. vi, Coaches, choked full with pleasure-seekers from Port Erin. So ˈpleasure-ˌseeking n. and a.
1886J. G. Matteson Hist. Sk. 63/1, I found the people in Norway far more religiously inclined than those in Denmark; they..are not so much given to pleasure-seeking. 1888Barrie When a Man's Single xv, Dowton's whole existence has been devoted to pleasure-seeking. 1896Mrs. Caffyn Quaker Grandmother 12 That lady watched the pleasure-seeking vagaries of her charge, with a painful and discriminating interest. 1936Discovery Oct. 301/1 Only a slight ripple on the normal pleasure-seeking surface of Blackpool was caused by the arrival and departure of the British Association. |