worldling
/wurld-ling/US // ˈwɜrld lɪŋ //UK // (ˈwɜːldlɪŋ) //
世界之光,世界之最,世界之窗,世界之音
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a person devoted to the interests and pleasures of this world; a worldly person.
Examples
But I stayed where I was, the earthiest worldling in a dress of unworldliness.
Great God, considerAll she has done and suffered, and forbearTo smite her like a worldling!
Perhaps; but, bias for bias, I would rather own to that of the romantic schoolboy than to that of the cynical Old-Worldling.
To a clay compounded chiefly of the worldling and the rhetorician there is added a real spark of Promethean fire.
Almost all the life of a worldling's pleasure is in his hopes.
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