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An epicure is a person who takes real pleasure in good food and drink, and who notices quality — not only how much there is. You might picture a rich with a long wine list, and sometimes that is fair; though actually, an epicure can be anyone who cares, even about a perfect bowl of . The name comes from Epicurus, a Greek philosopher who taught that a good life includes pleasure. Later English used his name for a lover of fine taste. That is a little unfair to him: his own teaching was closer to simple joys and a calm mind than to luxury. Still, in today’s English, epicure means the food-and-drink person, not a philosophy student. It is a somewhat word; in casual talk people are more likely to say food lover.
美食家；老饕
組成From Epicurus, the name of an Ancient Greek philosopher who taught a life that includes pleasure.
同家族的字
- epicureanthe adjective (and an older name for a follower of Epicurus)
- Epicureanismthe philosophy named after Epicurus
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
epicurenoun/ˈɛpɪkjʊə/
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A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink.
- If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
- But, without preaching, the truth may surely be borne in mind, that the bustle, and triumph, and laughter, and gaiety which Vanity Fair exhibits in public, do not always pursue the performer into private life, and that the most dreary depression of spirits and dismal repentances sometimes overcome him. Recollection of the best ordained banquets will scarcely cheer sick epicures.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。