epicurean

英 [ˌepɪkjʊəˈriːən]

美 [ˌepɪkjʊˈriːən]

adj.  享乐的; 吃喝玩乐的

GRE

COCA.32071

牛津词典

adj.

• 享乐的；吃喝玩乐的
  devoted to pleasure and enjoying yourself

柯林斯词典

• ADJ （食物）美味的，可口的；（尤指）稀奇的
  Epicureanfood is of very good quality, especially unusual or rare food.
  1. ...an epicurean dish.
     一盘佳肴

英英释义

noun

• a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
  Synonym:epicuregourmetgastronomebon vivantfoodie

adj

• displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
  1. an epicurean banquet
  2. enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs
  3. Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence
  4. a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness
  Synonym:luxuriousluxuriantsybariticvoluptuaryvoluptuous
• devoted to pleasure
  1. a hedonic thrill
  2. lives of unending hedonistic delight
  3. epicurean pleasures
  Synonym:hedonichedonistic

双语例句

• Epicurean doctrines on religion and death helped to alleviate many pains from people at his times, and had great bearings on the upcoming bourgeois enlightenment in which some thinkers fought against Christian religion and advocated human nature and humanism.
  伊壁鸠鲁对宗教和死亡的论证有利于缓解那个时代人的许多痛苦，同时对后来资产阶级启蒙思想家反基督教，张扬人性，提倡人道主义意义很大。
• An alternative epicurean pleasure can be achieved by carefully contrasting the mouthfeel of a dish with a water's carbonation.
  作为一种美食享受，可以通过仔细配对不同的菜与碳酸水，来进行细致的对比。
• Timon, on his epicurean table in past times, had so liberally presented food.
  过去泰门在他考究的筵席上能大量供应食品。
• Epicurean philosophy of life not only was significant at his times, but also inspires us a lot in our pursuit of happy life in China today.
  他的人生哲学不仅在当时意义重大，对于今天的中国人追求幸福同样有着很好的启发意义。
• As we all know, the term "prolepsis" originated from Epicurus, and it plays an important role in Epicurean Epistemology.
  众所周知，prolepsis是伊壁鸠鲁首创的一个术语，并且它在伊壁鸠鲁认识论中占据一个重要的地位。
• It seemed that his route to the coveted island was not to be an epicurean one.
  看来他渴望去的那个岛不能以这种享乐方式达到。
• I had an epicurean feast.
  我吃了一顿丰盛的宴席。
• There are those, of course, who would adopt the epicurean motto of "Eat, drink, and be merry", most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.
  当然，也有一些人一生只是“吃、喝、享受”，然而，大多数人们在得知死亡的确存在时都会有所收敛。
• But his eudemonism was not epicurean hedonism, because eudemonia was an activity.
  但他的幸福观不是享乐主义的快乐论，因为幸福是实现活动。
• "Pleasure Is Happiness" and "Virtue Is Happiness"& Contrastive Analyses of View of Happiness of the Epicurean and the Stoic
  快乐即幸福与有德即幸福&伊壁鸠鲁学派与斯多亚学派幸福观之比较