idyll
/ˈɪdɪl/(亦作idyl)
noun
1- an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene, typically an idealized or unsustainable one(尤指理想中的或难以实现的)平静快乐的生活; 宁静如画的场面:
the rural idyll remains strongly evocative in most industrialized societies.
平静快乐的田园生活一直在多数工业化社会中被深深缅怀。
1.1
- a short description in verse or prose of a picturesque scene or incident, especially in rustic life描写田园生活的短诗(或散文)。
词源
late 16th cent. (in the Latin form): from Latin idyllium, from Greek eidullion, diminutive of eidos 'form, picture'.