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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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