| 单词 | pastoral |
| 释义 | pastoral (once / 833 pages) 1adjn 2adjn Pastoral refers to the countryside, particularly an idealized view of the country. If you draw cheery pictures with lush grassy fields, calm skies, a farm animal or two, and some flowers, you draw pastoral scenes. Pastoral can also mean something done by, you guessed it, a pastor. If a pastor writes a letter to his congregation, it is a pastoral letter. How are they related? Shepherds, of course. Pastors are often referred to as shepherds of their flock (i.e., the members of their church congregation). Actual shepherds, the kind who tend sheep, work in pastoral settings. WORD FAMILYpastoral: pastorally, pastorals+/pastor: pastoral, pastors, pastorship/pastorship: pastorships USAGE EXAMPLESIn the 19th century, pastoral windmills were replaced with tanneries, limestone quarries, and dye works. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) The sheer range of musical expression is astonishing: pastoral reveries, woodland scenes, romantic arias, heroic dramas, historical legends and visions of spiritual strife. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) They absorb such stock scenes as the lament, the pastoral, the lullaby, the rage aria, the tempest. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) 1 1adj relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle pastoral seminomadic people pastoral land a pastoral economy Syn bucolic 2adj (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic charming in its pastoral setting Syn arcadian, bucolic rural living in or characteristic of farming or country life 3n a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) Hypo|Hyper bucolic, eclogue, idyl, idyll a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life literary composition, literary work imaginative or creative writing 4n a musical composition that evokes rural life 2Syn|Hyper idyl, idyll, pastorale composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music a musical work that has been created 1adj of or relating to a pastor pastoral work a pastoral letter 2n a letter from a pastor to the congregation Hyper letter, missive a written message addressed to a person or organization |
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