sybarite
['s?b?,ra?t]
- n. 愛奢侈享樂的人
GRE
中文詞源
sybarite 貪圖享樂的人
來自拉丁語 Sybarita,來自希臘語 Sybarites,居住在 Sybaris 城的人，來自 Sybaris,古希臘南部城 市，其居民以貪圖享樂，驕奢淫逸著稱。
英文詞源
- sybarite
- sybarite: [16] Sybaris was an ancient Greek colony in southern Italy. It was a flourishing trading centre, and its inhabitants put their considerable wealth to the service of unrestrained self-indulgence. Their luxurious and debauched ways became a byword in the ancient world, and Greek Subarítēs ‘inhabitant of Sybaris’ came to be synonymous with ‘pleasure-seeker’, and also with ‘lecher’ – both heterosexual and homosexual. English acquired the word via Latin Sybarīta, and has rather toned down its connotations.
- sybarite (n.)
- "person devoted to pleasure," 1590s, literally "inhabitant of Sybaris," ancient Greek town in southern Italy, whose people were noted for their love of luxury. From Latin Sybarita, from Greek Sybarites.
雙語例句
- 1. We should keep away from being a sybarite.
- 我們不能做個奢侈逸樂的人。
來自辭典例句