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单词 halcyon
释义
halcyonhal‧cy‧on /ˈhælsiən/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINhalcyon
Origin:
1500-1600 halcyon ‘bird believed to bring good weather at sea’ (14-19 centuries), from Latin, from Greek alkyon ‘kingfisher’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • For a time the halcyon days of 1825 returned.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • But the halcyon days were short-lived.
  • For a time the halcyon days of 1825 returned.
  • He wrote and thanked the Lord Treasurer for restoring his halcyon days, showing his love for Halling.
  • Hot, halcyon days of sunshine and vapour trails, butterflies and crammed picnic baskets.
  • It was from those halcyon days that the following story dates.
  • The post-merger period amounted to halcyon days for Hook Harris.
  • Who, in its halcyon days, imagined Carthage a ballroom for the wind?
  • You're in a dreary barn of a place, its halcyon days long gone.
halcyon days literary a time in the past when you were very happy
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