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A voluptuary is a person whose life is built around physical pleasure and beautiful, expensive things — rich food, wine, soft beds, fine clothes, sex, comfort. The word is a noun ("he was a voluptuary") and can also work as an adjective meaning "to do with that kind of pleasure-loving life" ("voluptuary habits"), though the noun is far more common. Two things about the feel of it. First, it is very formal and old-sounding — you meet it in novels, history books, and newspaper writing that is being a little grand on purpose. Almost nobody says it out loud in ordinary conversation; a modern speaker would say "he loves the good life" or "he's a ". Second, it is mostly, but not always, a criticism. The picture behind the word is a person with money and time who has chosen pleasure over duty — so it usually carries a small shake of the head, a sense of softness or waste. But a writer can also use it half-admiringly, for someone who really knows how to enjoy being alive. The tone comes from the sentence around it, not from the word alone. Note that it describes a whole way of living, not one moment. Someone who eats a wonderful meal is not a voluptuary; someone who arranges their whole life around such meals is.
耽於逸樂的人、享樂主義者（比較文雅、帶點貶意，指沉溺於感官與物質享受的人）
組成From Latin voluptas 'pleasure, delight' plus the ending -arius, which turns a noun into 'a person connected with that thing' — so literally 'a pleasure person'. English took it through French voluptuaire. Voluptas itself goes back to volup 'pleasantly, agreeably'.
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- voluptuoussame Latin voluptas 'pleasure' — describing something that gives rich physical pleasure
原始詞典資料2 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。
voluptuarynoun/vəˈlʌptʃʊəɹi/
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One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker, a sensualist.
- But Mrs. Cole, in oppoſition to this, aſſured me that the gentlemen I ſhould be preſented to, were, by their rank and taſte of things, infinitely ſuperior to the being touch'd with any glare of dreſs, or ornaments, ſuch as ſilly women rather confound, and overlay, than ſet off their beauty with; that theſe veteran voluptuaries knew better than not to hold them in the higheſt contempt, […]
- His features might have been called good, had there not lurked under the pent-house of his eye, that sly epicurean twinkle which indicates the cautious voluptuary.
voluptuaryadj/vəˈlʌptʃʊəɹi/
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Of or relating to the seeking of sensual pleasure.
- For as it hath beene well obſerued, that the Arts which flouriſh in times, while vertue is in growth, are Militarie: and while vertue is in State are Liberall; and while vertue is in declination, are voluptuarie; ſo I doubt, that this age of the world, is ſomewhat vpon the deſcent of the wheele; with Arts voluptuarie, I couple practiſes Iocularie; for the deceiuing of the ſences, is one of the pleaſures of the ſences.
- As to mental Perturbations, which render the Lives of Fools miſerable and calamitous, […] All theſe Perturbations may be comprehended under four general Heads, but admit of many Subdiviſions. Their general Diviſion is into Uneaſineſs, Fear, Luſt, and that voluptuary Elevation of a wanton Spirit which I call Joy; though the Stoics generally term it both as applicable to Soul and Body, ἡδονη.
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。