| 单词 | happy valley |
| 释义 | > as lemmashappy valley happy valley n. a place of remarkable beauty, tranquillity, and contentedness.Frequently with allusion to the earthly paradise depicted in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas; cf. quot. 1759. ΚΠ 1759 S. Johnson Rasselas I. ii. 10 Here the sons and daughters of Abissinia..were daily entertained with songs, the subject of which was the happy valley. 1845 W. A. Caruthers Knights of Horse-shoe xvi. 57 ‘It is..almost a perfect terrestrial paradise, abounding in deer, elk, buffalo, and game of every sort—the land teeming with wild fruits of every kind, and bright with the purest fountains of water that ever gushed from the solid rocks.’ ‘O aye, I know that is your opinion, but..you were a mere boy when you left that happy valley’. 1938 D. Du Maurier Rebecca x. 130 On either side of the narrow path stood azaleas and rhododendrons,..things of beauty and grace... ‘We call it the Happy Valley,’ he said. 2002 Observer (Nexis) 27 Oct. 56 The media trumpets the message that sex brings happiness. If this were true, we would indeed live in an earthly paradise and the world would be ‘happy valley’. < as lemmas |
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