| 单词 | rustication |
| 释义 | rustication (once / 64236 pages) 1n 2n 3n When you pack up your city apartment and move to the country, you can call it rustication — it's a term that can have positive or negative associations, depending on how excited you are about living in the boonies. The noun rustication is good for what your grandfather did when he retired to a rural town to become a gentleman farmer. You can also describe your grudging attendance at a summer camp deep in the Maine woods as your own rustication. Whether by choice or banishment, rustication is a move to the countryside. The Latin root is rusticus, "open land or country." WORD FAMILYrustication: rustications+/rustic: rustically, rusticate, rusticism, rusticity, rustics/rusticate: rusticated, rusticates, rusticating, rustication/rusticity: rusticities USAGE EXAMPLESHis neglect of prescribed studies, and disregard of college discipline, resulted in his rustication just before commencement in 1838. Lowell, James Russell, Poems of James Russell Lowell—With...(2012) Rustication saved him perhaps in the sense that it detached him; it undermined his ambitions, which had been foolish. James, Henry, Lady Barbarina—The Siege of London,...(2011) Change of scene is a good thing, but utter solitude, under the names of rustication and rest, is a penalty I never willingly undergo. Doughty, Francis Worcester, The Bradys After a Chinese Princess...(2011) 1 1n the condition naturally attaching to life in the country Hyper condition, status a state at a particular time 2n the action of retiring to and living in the country Hyper retirement withdrawal from your position or occupation 3n banishment into the country 2Hyper banishment, proscription rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone n the construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner 3Hyper building, construction the act of constructing something n temporary dismissal of a student from a university Hyper suspension, temporary removal a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc) |
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