Question of the Day #625

The 'Bridgerton' wardrobe is the definition of eye candy.

From the 1st paragraph of this article at the Chicago Tribune.

上記の文で、eye candyの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "eye candy" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

《an ～》一見魅力的な［目の保養になる・見掛け倒しの］物［人］◆見た目には魅力的だが、面白さや有用性に乏しい物または人。

不定冠詞がanとなっていますが、例文でわかるようにあまり冠詞が使用されません。

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

something superficially attractive to look at

Examples

• A lot of the material on their Web site is just eye candy.
• a fashionable portrait painter in his day, he is now regarded as a minor purveyor of eye candy
• This is a series that is brain candy as well as eye candy. Houston Chronicle (2008)
• Animation has stopped being eye-candy for kids and become mainstream entertainment.
• Scroll through the gallery for a peek at all the celebrity eye candy the ladies loved in 2020. — Jasmine Grant, Essence, "Eye Candy! We Couldn't Stop Talking About These Fine Men All 2020," 31 Dec. 2020

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