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bucolic

/byoo-kol-ik/US // byuˈkɒl ɪk //UK // (bjuːˈkɒlɪk) //

乡土,乡土的,乡土气息,古朴

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Also bu·col·i·cal.

    • : of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
    • : of, relating to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a pastoral poem.
    • : Archaic. a farmer; shepherd; rustic.

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Examples

  • William Vogt was born in 1902 on Long Island, New York, back when it was largely bucolic.

  • A ramble down Maryland’s bucolic “Fiddlers Hill Road” is just one possible journey, whether geographic or stylistic.

  • Up north, Tuolumne Meadows is the jump-off point for a stroll through bucolic Lyell Canyon, especially beautiful in early summer when its subalpine meadows absolutely glow with chlorophyll and wildflowers abound.

  • Living on a farm about 30 miles away in the tiny bucolic town of Toutle, he had carved out a lifestyle based loosely on the ’70s ideal.

  • If the bucolic scene has some of the look of a campground, it also has much of the feel.

  • Dining facilities include al fresco picnic tables and bucolic fields adjacent to the pastures.

  • They are both in the study of my old farmhouse, in a room that has three nice sized windows, each with a lovely, bucolic view.

  • During the day, shops were open and the relatively simple, bucolic life of a farming village seemed to go on normally.

  • But there seems in general to be a rather odd conception of “peace” in the bucolic Scandinavian nation.

  • It is, in many ways, the picture-perfect holiday for a savvy pol: bucolic, family-oriented, tradition-bound, and not too glitzy.

  • When he travelled on his line he came in contact with bucolic interests instead of the whirring wheels of trade.

  • About her there was something unmistakably bucolic, and yet she was town-branded, too, flesh and soul.

  • The reproaches I here level against the bucolic idyl cannot be understood of the sentimental.

  • We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase.

  • Mr. Sprole, like many a self-made man, was proud of his farm, though he did not lead a wholly bucolic existence.