| 单词 | idyll |
| 释义 | idyll (once / 2514 pages) n An idyll is a short period in which everything is wonderful. You could say a cruise you took with your family was an idyll in an otherwise difficult year. In its more formal sense, idyll describes a pastoral interlude or a poem set in nature––an idealized, or idyllic, version of nature where you are drinking champagne under the apple trees, and no one has stepped in cow manure or walked through poison ivy. WORD FAMILYidyll: idyllic, idylls+/idyllic: idyllically, idyllicly USAGE EXAMPLESThey wanted picturesque landscapes that were wilder and more rugged than Brown’s placid idylls. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) Venice, a chameleon that has been an oil town, bohemian idyll, crumbling ghetto and tourist mecca, is adopting a new guise: tech citadel. The Guardian(Dec 01, 2016) Some critics have argued that the idyll of the film would be broken by the friction of sex but Jarmusch doesn’t see it that way. The Guardian(Nov 25, 2016) 1n a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life Syn|Hyper bucolic, eclogue, idyl pastoral a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) 2n a musical composition that evokes rural life Syn|Hyper idyl, pastoral, pastorale composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music a musical work that has been created 3n an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll Hyper episode a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events |
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