English Dictionary

Lotusland

固有名詞

ギリシャ語 くだけた表現

(Greek mythology) The legendary island of the lotus-eaters. / (informal) The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (and, by extension, the province of British Columbia).

日本語の意味

ギリシャ神話で、ロタスを食べる人々が住むとされる伝説の島を指す。 / （口語）カナダのブリティッシュコロンビア州、特にバンクーバー市（およびその周辺地域）を指す。

When the sailors reached Lotusland, they forgot their homes and lived in endless languor.

船乗りたちが蓮を食べる者たちの伝説の島に到着したとき、彼らは故郷を忘れて果てしのない倦怠の中で暮らした。

意味（1）

(Greek mythology) The legendary island of the lotus-eaters.

Calypso is by far the most effective impediment Odysseus encounters on his journey home to Ithaca, holding him in a sensuous but tedious captivity for seven years, Lotusland revisited.

意味（2）

(informal) The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (and, by extension, the province of British Columbia).

Vancouver, until about two years ago. I could tell that she was going to regale me about the beauty of Lotusland, where it never snows and pot grows between cracks in the sidewalk.