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单词 lotus-eater
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
lo•tus-eat•er  (lō′təs ē′tər),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Mythology[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.
  • singular of lotus-eaters, translation of Greek Lōtophágoi, noun, nominal use of masculine plural of lōtophágos lotus-eating. See lotus, -phagous 1825–35

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
lotus-eater n
  1. one of a people encountered by Odysseus in North Africa who lived in indolent forgetfulness, drugged by the fruit of the legendary lotus
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