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bu·col·ic
byu ka lihk
bucolically (adj.)
Noun
1. a country person
2. a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
Adjective
1. used of idealized country life;
"a country life of arcadian contentment"
"a pleasant bucolic scene"
"charming in its pastoral setting"
"rustic tranquility"
2. relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle;
"pastoral seminomadic people"
"pastoral land"
"a pastoral economy"
"牧歌的,与乡村生活或牧羊人的事务和职业有关",1610年代,早期的 bucolical(1520年代),源自拉丁语 bucolicus,来自希腊语 boukolikos "牧歌的,乡村的",来自 boukolos "牛仙,牧人",来自 bous "牛"(来自 PIE 词根 *gwou- "公牛,母牛") + -kolos "照顾",与拉丁语 colere "耕种(土地),培养,居住"相关(来自 PIE 词根 *kwel-(1)"旋转,移动; 逗留,居住")。中古爱尔兰语 búachaill,威尔士语 bugail "牧羊人"是由与希腊语 boukolos 相同的词根材料形成的凯尔特语单词。
Latin bucolicus, from Greek boukolikos, from boukolos cowherd, from bous head of cattle + -kolos (akin to Latin colere to cultivate) — more at cow, wheel
The first known use of bucolic was circa 1609
bucolicadjective
pastoral entry 1 sense 1a, rural
1 Chambers rides a bicycle around the bucolic postwar English countryside, getting mixed up in intrigue while battling his own demons, including combat PTSD.
2 Thanks to some digital trickery, we go back to the bucolic suburban home of “The Brady Bunch,” where Marcia is upset that a football has ruined her nose for the big dance.
3 Would they praise bucolic existence or lament a lost way of life?
4 Coming to the Oxford Union The bucolic setting for an improbable U.F.C. bout: Oxford University.
5 William Bryant, editor of the New York Post, was the progenitor of the idea to create a bucolic retreat from the city heat.
6 They live in a bucolic part of Connecticut and have four grown children, including two daughters who have followed him into acting.
7 Twickenham and its environs in Turner’s time were bucolic areas with sweeping landscapes and river views, dotted with the retreats of the wealthy.
8 The bucolic Third is too hard-edged for my taste, though it's nicely played.
9 Far from a bucolic travelogue in soft focus, the piece became a vivid journey in Technicolor; one practically felt the spray in one’s face and the unsteady boat underfoot.
10 Ms. Krinitz’s panels, 36 in all, begin with images of bucolic life — the family tending animals, villagers baking Passover matzo — but intensify with the Nazi occupation.
11 The meadow was the scene of bucolic gaiety .
湖边肥沃的草地就是农村欢乐生活的一个特写镜头。
12 The combination of bucolic seclusion and the sight of a bridge or the sound of traffic makes for a round that only a New Yorker could love.
13 Working primarily in blue, brown-gray and the white of the underlying paper, the artist evokes the Mediterranean shore or bucolic streams.
14 Only my mother, who is French, would locate a place in which campers were required to speak French — and this, in the middle of bucolic Vermont.
15 It is hard to imagine a more bucolic city neighborhood.
16 “If Thomas Jefferson had lunched here,” John quipped, “he would have just seen a bucolic landscape. Hamilton saw a natural source of power upon which to build an economy.”
17 Sitting in the movie-set-perfect town of Kingham, in the Cotswolds, this inn is in a prime location for exploring the area’s bucolic landscapes and stone villages, long prized by London’s well-heeled second-home seekers.
18 A nuclear disaster, evil scientists and a malevolent monster with psychedelic eyeballs that wreaks havoc on a bucolic town.
19 Saval: My family is from Bangalore, and I have childhood memories of going to the campus, which is an extremely bucolic setting.
20 Mahalia Jackson’s towering “Amazing Grace” shared space with the Carter Family’s bucolic “Keep on the Sunny Side,” the Texas blues titan Blind Lemon Jefferson with the Appalachian lawyer Bascom Lamar Lunsford.
1 田园生活的
2 田园生活
3 乡村生活的
5 农夫
agr. agric. dirty-neck gully-jumper stump-jumper rustic hob tiller cob Carl homespun husbandman agriculturist jake Hodge plowman landman hobnail clodhopper sodbuster plower
7 牧人的
8 乡村的
rural pastoral georgic platteland agrestic rustic countrified down-home country village villatic
11 田园
14 田园诗人
16 农民
farmer peasant countryman kern churl grass-roots agrarian peasantry agriculturist campesino boor muzhik clout-shoe
17 乡下人
churlish provincial wheat rustic peasant villager hind hillbilly clod tyke loblolly paisano kern hodge boor kerne provincialist countryman bushman country folk corn ball a squirrel shooter country jake hick chuff stump-jumper clown bushy Carl yap bumpkin jake Elmer bushwhacker plowman landman clem clodhopper mossback busher plower one-eye chawbacon