| 单词 | bucolic |
| 释义 | bucolic (once / 8353 pages) adjn As an adjective, bucolic refers to an ideal country life that many yearn for. If your parents wanted to raise you in a bucolic environment, you may find yourself living 45 minutes away from the nearest movie theater or person your age. Not ideal. You wouldn’t know it to look at it, but bucolic is a distant relation of cow, and all bucolic’s meanings can be connected to the bovine creature. Bucolic ultimately comes from the Greek boukolos, cowherd or herdsman. A bucolic could be a short poem about pastoral (cow) life or a country person, who is stereotyped as a cowherd. Used as an adjective, bucolic can refer to an idealized rural life (think life with cows) or to herdsmen (more cows). And that’s no bull. WORD FAMILYbucolic: bucolically, bucolicly, bucolics USAGE EXAMPLESThere are stunning vistas of rugged, bucolic coastal inlets. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Today, the Lovings’ Caroline County is still a bucolic area where farming and timber are the main industries. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) That fall, she wrangled an artist residency at Gibraltar Point, on bucolic Toronto Island. The Guardian(Dec 14, 2016) 1adj relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle Syn pastoral 2adj (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic a pleasant bucolic scene Syn arcadian, pastoral rural living in or characteristic of farming or country life 3n a country person Syn|Hypo|Hyper peasant, provincial cottar, cotter a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands moujik, mujik, muzhik, muzjika Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) rustic an unsophisticated country person 4n a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life Syn|Hyper eclogue, idyl, idyll pastoral a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) |
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