| 单词 | eye candy |
| 释义 | eye candy (once / 117023 pages) n Eye candy is something that's nice to look at but doesn't make you think very hard or have any real importance. Many fashion magazines are full of pictures that are nothing but eye candy. If a movie is full of attractive actors lounging on lovely beaches and laughing in the sunshine but doesn't offer any message or important theme or lasting images, you might describe it as being just eye candy. The earliest use of eye candy experts can find is a 1978 review of the TV show "Three's Company," which criticized it as having no lasting value despite being pretty to look at — just eye candy. WORD FAMILYeye candy USAGE EXAMPLESThe windows, the “Land of 1,000 Delights,” mix eye candy with real candy: over-the-top outfits alongside lollipops twice the size of the mannequins. New York Times(Nov 25, 2016) Women in such movies were often little more than eye candy to be discarded — quickly, vividly and violently. Washington Post(Nov 17, 2016) And so the show’s sense of momentum relies mainly on tragically beautiful eye candy, high manners and lifestyle — the building blocks of televised Anglophilia. Washington Post(Nov 02, 2016) n visual images that are pleasing to see but are intellectually undemanding he wanted to put some eye candy on their web site Hyper visual image, visual percept a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system |
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