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单词 idyll
释义
idyllid‧yll /ˈɪdəl,ˈɪdɪl $ ˈaɪdl/ noun [singular] literary Word Origin
WORD ORIGINidyll
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin idyllium, from Greek eidyllion, from eidos ‘form’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Decades later, the shipbuilder was still enjoying his island idyll.
  • Durham stood for an idyll of ten years.
  • If we were back in urban reality now, we yet retained a glow imparted by our bucolic idyll.
  • In order to arrive at the truth behind the idyll, I must return to the matter of attributions.
  • Møn was an idyll for me, one enriched for its being shared with my cousin, who was my closest friend.
  • The short romantic idyll was over.
  • The wartime idyll between Pamela Churchill and Harriman has long been publicly known.
  • This rural idyll is, however, the privilege of the minority.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 a rural idyll
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· The expectations of the latter is examined in the light of the rural idyll.· This rural idyll is, however, the privilege of the minority.· It will be a rural idyll.· A once charming rural idyll, Emmerdale had become a moral cesspit.
a place or experience in which everything is peaceful and everyone is perfectly happy:  a rural idyll
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