樂, for example, means "music" when pronounced as yue, "joy", "pleasant", or "find pleasure in" when pronounced as yao, and "to enjoy" (intransitive) when pronounced as le.
ALTHOUGH I'm not suggesting you bite into a raw hunk of butternut squash or gnaw on a head of cabbage (though the latter can actually be pleasant), there's great pleasure to be found in feasting on autumn vegetables served raw, with a minimum of preparation.
For all these, while one salient kind of motive involves longing for pleasure or pleasant things, people also have other ultimate goals.
In stanza one we had the speaker's "pleasant thoughts", and now the pleasure is nature's – or so the poet believes.
In the case of the squirrel, it's a pleasant surprise and the unexpected pleasure of seeing something funny when we were expecting something more mundane triggers a positive response (in this case smiling or even laughing).
They, however, used "hêdonê" ambiguously to contrast with both, meaning sometimes pleasure but sometimes pleasant sensory experiences (similarly to uses 2 and 4 of six paragraphs below).
But instead of being pure pleasure, it's merely pleasant, rather like a decent summer-replacement comedy sketch series on television.
The New Yorker, January 31 , 1953P. 20 Notice sent by Sonoma Mission Inn of Boyes Hot Springs, California: To make your stay at Sonoma Mission Inn pleasant, we have provided for your pleasure Swimming Pool Television Tennis Horse Shoe Pitching Croquet Putting Green... Hors d'oeuvres.
Moreover, Aristippus said that pleasures do not differ from one another, that one pleasure is not more pleasant than another.
The removal of pain can seem to be pleasant, and the removal of a pleasure can seem to be painful.
