英语词汇lotus-eater的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lotus-eater. A daydreamer, someone who leads an indolent, dreamy life of ease indifferent to the busy world, is sometimes called a lotus-eater. In the Odyssey Homer writes that the Lotus-eaters, or Lotophagi, were a people who lived on the northeast African coast and ate what later Greek writers iden- tified as the fruit of the shrub Zizyphus lotus, which made them dream all day, forget friends and family, and lose all de- sire of ever returning to their homes. Any traveler who ate the sweet fruit or drank a wine made from it wanted only to live in Lotus-Land. Lotus, however, is a name given to many plants. The Chinese make a lotus seed dessert called pinh tan lian tye, reputed to be an aphrodisiac, and the delicious sugarberry or hackberry (Celtis australis), grown in the northern U.S., has been called the fabled food of the Lotus-eaters. Even jujubes, long a favorite candy, were once thought to be flavored with lotus fruit.

词汇	lotus-eater
词源	lotus-eater. A daydreamer, someone who leads an indolent, dreamy life of ease indifferent to the busy world, is sometimes called a lotus-eater. In the Odyssey Homer writes that the Lotus-eaters, or Lotophagi, were a people who lived on the northeast African coast and ate what later Greek writers iden- tified as the fruit of the shrub Zizyphus lotus, which made them dream all day, forget friends and family, and lose all de- sire of ever returning to their homes. Any traveler who ate the sweet fruit or drank a wine made from it wanted only to live in Lotus-Land. Lotus, however, is a name given to many plants. The Chinese make a lotus seed dessert called pinh tan lian tye, reputed to be an aphrodisiac, and the delicious sugarberry or hackberry (Celtis australis), grown in the northern U.S., has been called the fabled food of the Lotus-eaters. Even jujubes, long a favorite candy, were once thought to be flavored with lotus fruit.
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