单词 | lotus-eater |
释义 | lotus-eater /loh"teuhs ee'teuhr/, n. 1. Class. Myth. 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. [1825-35; sing. of lotus-eaters, trans. of Gk Lotophágoi, n. use of masc. pl. of lotophágos lotus-eating. See LOTUS, -PHAGOUS] |
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