词汇 | vegetarian |
词源 | vegetarian. Vegetarianism (which is a relatively recent word, used in 1895 by a British health magazine in describing the eat- ing habits of a Chinese sect and modelled after unitarianism, etc.) may or may not be the thing for you, though it certainly was for Pythagoras, Aristotle, Epicurus, Diogenes, Cicero, Pla- to, Socrates, Buddha, Montaigne, Wesley, Pope, Wagner, Swe- denborg, Shelley, Tolstoy, Shaw, Gandhi, Mussolini, Hitler, and many other famous, infamous, and obscure people who only ate vegetables. |
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