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idyll

/ahyd-l/US // ˈaɪd l //UK // (ˈɪdɪl) //

田园诗,田园生活,田园风光,田园牧歌

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a poem or prose composition, usually describing pastoral scenes or events or any charmingly simple episode, appealing incident, or the like.
    • : a simple descriptive or narrative piece in verse or prose.
    • : material suitable for such a work.
    • : an episode or scene of idyllic charm.
    • : a brief or inconsequential romantic affair.
    • : Music. a composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character.

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Examples

  • The pursuit of this elusive idyll seems to be what makes him tick.

  • Despite moving from the idyll of Golden State to a somewhat sloppier situation with the Nets — Durant, Harden, and Irving may reach the playoffs having played just seven games together — Durant has maintained his production across categories.

  • The irony is that Paradise is anything but, especially for the characters whose hard work and impoverished lives sustain tourists’ idylls.

  • The approach came in handy while Strava-stalking my defector runner friends in their various idylls.

  • Landing back in Cannes after this island idyll is always a bit of a shock, festival time or not.

  • But the intervening years were as close to a domestic idyll as Washington ever experienced.

  • See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid  As years go by, a domestic idyll turns dark.

  • What starts as a domestic idyll turns out to be something much darker.

  • Yet Odessa's "cosmopolitan idyll" (to use King's phrase) was not what it seemed.

  • The old story of Boaz and Ruth grew beneath his hands into a delicious idyll of country life.

  • It shall be a poem, an idyll—far from all interruptions, far from intrigues!'

  • It seemed that she and I had been born brother and sister in some impossible pastoral idyll.

  • And what is one to say of the love idyll appended to the historical drama, in spite of history, in spite of the drama itself?

  • Possibly it might create a greater sensation if it were introduced to the world as Julia and Pausanias: an Idyll.