释义 |
halcyonhal‧cy‧on /ˈhælsiən/ adjective halcyonOrigin: 1500-1600 halcyon ‘bird believed to bring good weather at sea’ (14-19 centuries), from Latin, from Greek alkyon ‘kingfisher’ - For a time the halcyon days of 1825 returned.
► halcyon days- 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 |