| 释义 |
Definition of pleasure-seeking in English: pleasure-seekingadjective Seeking amusement or enjoyment. a selfish, pleasure-seeking young man Example sentencesExamples - Large crowds of buyers, sellers and pleasure-seeking spectators attended the fayre.
- He hit out at "pleasure-seeking" officials who had fallen into an "abyss of luxury and corruption".
- At that time Montreal had a reputation as Sin City, where pleasure-seeking American tourists, banned from Cuba by Castro in 1959, turned for their thrills.
- The world is full of carefree, pleasure-seeking drifters.
- He has the kindest of hearts but he's also aimless, dumb and pleasure-seeking.
- For most of us life is a conciliation between our pleasure-seeking instincts and the voice of Reason.
- Quite apart from any detrimental effect on visitor numbers to York, the assumption seems to be that there are two species of people, York residents and pleasure-seeking tourists.
- Many more business, executive, and even pleasure-seeking travelers are choosing to travel first class.
- What was always good about the Left in the '60s was that it was for the pleasure-seeking side.
- Pleasure-seeking behaviours, on the other hand, did not make people happier.
noun mass nounThe action or practice of seeking amusement or enjoyment. it was the Gilded Age—a time of lavish parties and tireless pleasure-seeking Example sentencesExamples - It is an utter mistake to suppose that pleasure-seeking and amusement alone can give happiness.
- They're concerned about their comfort, their generation's comfort, their pleasure-seeking, not humanity in general.
- Still, it is possible that the position is more than an elaborate justification for short-sighted pleasure-seeking.
- Such dedicated pleasure-seeking was always at the grudging indulgence of the adjoining land owner, and I've heard that access is now further impeded by strategic crop plantations.
- "They eschew pleasure-seeking as a vice and regard temperance and mastery of the passions as a virtue," Josephus writes of the Essenes.
- Whatever the motivation, there is a purposefulness about such a journey that separates it from the randomness and pleasure-seeking of mundane travel.
- The two figures, one highly individualised, dedicated to self-assertion and pleasure-seeking, the other ascetic and self-denying, are sharply contrasted.
- All of this was my pleasure-seeking - my personal gratification from moment to moment.
- For all the mindless pleasure-seeking, there are augurs of impending doom.
- The "social mudslide" refers to the nation's obsession with lotteries, which Lu said make people prefer pleasure-seeking over hard work.
Definition of pleasure-seeking in US English: pleasure-seekingadjective Seeking amusement or enjoyment. a selfish, pleasure-seeking young man Example sentencesExamples - What was always good about the Left in the '60s was that it was for the pleasure-seeking side.
- For most of us life is a conciliation between our pleasure-seeking instincts and the voice of Reason.
- Pleasure-seeking behaviours, on the other hand, did not make people happier.
- At that time Montreal had a reputation as Sin City, where pleasure-seeking American tourists, banned from Cuba by Castro in 1959, turned for their thrills.
- Large crowds of buyers, sellers and pleasure-seeking spectators attended the fayre.
- Many more business, executive, and even pleasure-seeking travelers are choosing to travel first class.
- He has the kindest of hearts but he's also aimless, dumb and pleasure-seeking.
- Quite apart from any detrimental effect on visitor numbers to York, the assumption seems to be that there are two species of people, York residents and pleasure-seeking tourists.
- The world is full of carefree, pleasure-seeking drifters.
- He hit out at "pleasure-seeking" officials who had fallen into an "abyss of luxury and corruption".
|