idyll
idyll 英 [ˈɪdɪl] 美 [ˈaɪdl]
n. 田园诗；牧歌；田园生活
名词复数:idylls
- 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.
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- n. 田园诗；牧歌；田园生活
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1. Last week the idyll seemed to be over.
上周，这田园诗般的生活似乎要终结了。
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2. But time, unforgivingly, moves on. The idyll shows faultlines: infidelity, disease, age, loss, divorce.
但时间无情地流逝，田园牧歌出现了断层：不贞、疾病、高龄、亏损、离婚。
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3. It was an upbringing he describes as "incredibly happy" – a Durrellian idyll near the New Forest in Hampshire.
他的成长过程在他自己的描述里是“无比快乐”的——那是在汉普郡的新森林区，就像达雷尔风格的田园牧歌一样。
- idyll (n.) also idyl, c. 1600, "short, picturesque pastoral poem," from French idylle (16c.) or directly Latin idyllium, from Greek eidyllion "short, descriptive poem, usually of rustic or pastoral type," literally "a little picture," diminutive of eidos "form" (see -oid).
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