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pleasure [ˈpleʒər, Brit -əʳ] N

pleasure
prazer m
to take pleasure in sth/in doing sth
with pleasure

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Kon observes that this painting does not portray pleasure from the masturbation, but a feeling of solitude.
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Of those on a pleasure boat, 82 per cent wore life jackets, while 86 per cent of kayak users did.
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These spring drives were stopped after 1915, when pleasure boat owners complained about the hazards to navigation.
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For the toddler, loading and putting money into the machine invoke wide-eyed pleasure.
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To experience the abject in literature carries with it a certain pleasure but one that is quite different from the dynamics of desire.
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The varied pace assures that after a rush of events, she allows a few quiet pages about long-married life, the serene pleasure of going to sleep companionably in another's embrace.
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An excessive influx of excitement, canceled the pleasure principle at once, forcing the psychic apparatus to perform a more urgent task: to link the excitations to allow its subsequent discharge.
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Her husband contracted a venereal disease from the pleasure quarters, and she divorced him.
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Some will pour it on the saucer and slurp it with abandon pleasure.
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In very simple terms, a hedonist strives to maximize net pleasure (pleasure minus pain).
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