It is a bucolic refuge in the midst of a great bustling city. 它是处在繁华的大城市之中的世外桃源。
The bucolic county of Devon— largely farmland, woods, moor, and shore— has long served the British as an antidote to city life. 充满田园风光的德文郡以其众多的农田、林、泽以及湖滨成为不列颠人长期以来从城市生活中放松下来的去处。
The fortress built by King Philip Augustus was situated on the right bank of the Seine, overlooking-- at that time-- splendid bucolic scenery. 菲利浦国王所建的堡垒就坐落在塞纳河的右岸,俯瞰着——在当时——秀丽的田园景色。
bucolic
[ noun ]
a country person
<noun.person>
a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
<noun.communication> [ adj ]
relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
<adj.pert> pastoral seminomadic people pastoral land a pastoral economy
(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
<adj.all> a country life of arcadian contentment a pleasant bucolic scene charming in its pastoral setting rustic tranquility
Bucolic \Bu*col"ic\, a. [L. bucolicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? cowherd, herdsman; ? ox + (perh.) ? race horse; cf. Skr. kal to drive: cf. F. bucolique. See {Cow} the animal.] Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
Bucolic \Bu*col"ic\, n. [L. Bucolic[^o]n po["e]ma.] A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. --Dryden.
This unpretentious, bucolic setting in central Kansas seems appropriate for Doskocil's quiet, shy founder.
They stay in brand-new accommodations, savoring the bucolic charm of the shore of the St. Lawrence River, more than 300 miles from the Big Apple.
Mr. Riegle doesn't have to go far to teach because, despite its bucolic name, The Washington Campus is all Washington and no campus.
This last outpost of the Chinese civil war, is surely the world's most bucolic battle zone.
Television ads featuring talking cows that boosted Melcher in 1982 proved a bust this time in a state anxious to shed its bucolic image and spotlight an above-average education level as a means to lure new, high-tech industries.
The fortunes that built mammoth, stylized stone monuments for a bucolic cemetery were founded in the roaring commerce of Victorian Louisville.
On a previous visit there, I seriously thought the reason I was never troubled by a fly, wasp or mosquito was that insects did not dare interfere in this perfect little bucolic kingdom of mammon. How wrong I was.
Anyone feeling like a country break could do much worse than motor down to this bucolic region and window shop.