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halcyon

/hal-see-uhn/US // ˈhæl si ən //UK // (ˈhælsɪən) //

卤素,幻影,卤水,卤煮

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Also hal·cy·o·ni·an [hal-see-oh-nee-uhn], /ˌhæl siˈoʊ ni ən/, hal·cy·on·ic [hal-see-on-ik]. /ˌhæl siˈɒn ɪk/.

    • : calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
    • : rich; wealthy; prosperous: halcyon times of peace.
    • : happy; joyful; carefree: halcyon days of youth.
    • : of or relating to the halcyon or kingfisher.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mythical bird, usually identified with the kingfisher, said to breed about the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea, and to have the power of charming winds and waves into calmness.
    • : any of various kingfishers, especially of the genus Halcyon.
    • : Classical Mythology. Alcyone.

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Examples

  • The tracks take me back to my youth and to simpler days, a complete halcyon era.

  • Back in the halcyon pre-pandemic days of summer 2019, 69 percent of Americans said they planned to attend a barbecue to celebrate the Fourth of July according to a Monmouth University poll from June of that year.

  • As we start to see the possible glimmer of a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, another summer is nearly upon us in all its halcyon glory.

  • Now, The Lyle Hotel and Lyle’s evoke the former halcyon days as the Hotel Carlyle.

  • In retrospect, 2009 and 2010 were halcyon days in the Middle East, now that we seem just one horseman short of an apocalypse.

  • The halcyon days of Wolf, the third-wave feminist revolutionary and author of The Beauty Myth (1990), seem far, far away.

  • Without a bribed official, a halcyon, or eagle, will watch the entry point with binoculars for patterns and opportunities.

  • The mixed-media collection evokes nostalgia for halcyon days through fragmented images of the past.

  • On the Impossible Past will transport you back to your halcyon, angsty teenage years.

  • Relatively, it touches those old times when religious houses, with their quaintly-trimmed orders, were in their halcyon days.

  • And yet subsequent generations have viewed with unconcern this halcyon period in the history of art.

  • This is the halcyon period of primers, introductions, handbooks, manuals.

  • Do you know the periods when the Mediterranean is troubled, and when the wintry halcyon days come?

  • Sleighing parties from Wheeling frequented this old tavern in the halcyon days of the road, and were handsomely entertained.