| 单词 | sensuous |
| 释义 | sen·su·ous 1. < to this poetry would be made precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate — John Milton > 2. < sensuous description > < a purely sensuous satisfaction > 3. < mild sensuous breezes > 4. Synonyms: < acute sensitivity to the sensual and intellectual pleasures that make life so abundantly worth living — Anthony West > < the richer tobacco enthusiasts want not merely the sensual pleasure their pipe brings — Irish Digest > < a sensual person given to lying on soft couches and overeating > sensuous can imply less an indulgence of appetite than an aesthetic gratification or delight as in beauty of color, sound, or artistic form and usually carries a weaker overtone of carnality than does sensual < some philosophers insist that most of the arts are sensuous and hence that beauty is sensuous, but W. T. Stace maintains that … beauty must be admitted to display itself in internal percepts — D.H.Rankin > < a sensuous love of food and drink and gaiety — William Soskin > < the cat … lolling before the fire, stretched in a paroxysm of sensuous happiness upon the hearth rug — F.A.Swinnerton > < poetry took on a new and bizarre intricacy of sensuous decoration and symbolic metaphor — Douglas Bush > < he eyed the fresh linen laid upon a yellow-painted chair with sensuous delight — Elinor Wylie > luxurious implies indulgence in or provision of either sensual or sensuous pleasures especially of a kind inducing a pleasant languor, a delightful ease especially of body, or a grateful peace of mind < in her luxurious bed, beneath the satin coverlet, which was scented with lavender — Ellen Glasgow > < sat down to a long, luxurious smoke — Rudyard Kipling > < turned his head upon the high cushioned back of his chair and closed his eyes for one luxurious instant — Elinor Wylie > voluptuous implies a stronger abandonment to sense pleasure especially for its own sake than does luxurious < the core of [his] genius is voluptuous, surcharged with indolence and passion — Cyril Connolly > < a sullen voluptuous mouth — Edmund Wilson > < Cleopatra — fierce, voluptuous, passionate, tender, wicked, terrible, and full of poisonous and rapturous enchantment — Nathaniel Hawthorne > sybaritic implies luxuriousness and voluptuousness of an extreme, often overrefined sort and especially indulgence in rare and choice foods and in surroundings calculated to provide a maximum of bodily gratification < a life of pleasure, folly, misfortune, vice, and sybaritic elegance — Philip Sherrard > < imagining the feel of the long silky fleece against bare toes makes one shiver with sybaritic pleasure — New Yorker > < a sybaritic banquet of seven courses, each with its own wine or liqueur > epicurean in this context can commonly imply sensuality or voluptuousness or, when nearer to an original sense, a sensuous, often fastidious delight in refined physical pleasures, often of eating or drinking but sometimes in intellectual pleasures < out-of-season delicacies, wines of rare vintage, epicurean specialties of a ten-thousand-dollar-a-year chef — J.J.Floherty > < drinking his tea with epicurean satisfaction — J.C.Powys > |
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