词汇释义
bucolic TEM8 GRE
UK /bjuˈkɒl.ɪk/ US /bjuˈkɑː.lɪk/
adj, Bucolic means relating to the countryside.乡村的，田园的
外刊例句
1. Bertelsmann posts successful local managers to bucolic Gütersloh in western Germany for a couple of years.(The Economist)
2. There was Hoosiers, with its bucolic small towns, its short shorts, and its non breakaway rims.(The Guardian - Opinion)
3. It was precisely that bucolic, protective environment in the deep countryside that made it almost impossible for his despairing grandmother to find him.(The Guardian)
4. But when the world's power players left the county after the 2013 G8 summit, the dark divisions that lurk underneath the bucolic surface of the Lakeland county – the islands dotted around Lough Erne, the old-fashioned market towns – remained.(The Guardian)
5. We played together in a cricket team run by this newspaper for the best part of 15 years in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, touring to America, India, Sri Lanka and some bucolic parts of England.(The Guardian)
6. Warchus likens the tense, brittle, dysfunctional domestic milieu of Sicilia to the emotional tenor of The Man Who Wasn't There, while seeing parallels between joyful, comic Bohemia and the bucolic atmosphere of O Brother, Where Art Thou?(The Guardian)
7. As we drive through bucolic Kent, some on the coach tweet their support of the cabaret to #UKIPcon, while disabled rights activist John McArdle, co-founder of the Black Triangle Campaign, explains to me the plight of hunger strikers in detention centres.(The Guardian)
8. In order to make a fly that resembled a bumblebee, he wrote, the Macedonians "wrap the hook in scarlet wool, and to the wool they attach two feathers that grow beneath a cock's wattles and are the colour of wax. According to Mr Hughes, Roman nobs thought fishing bucolic and uninteresting, and ranked fishermen alongside shepherds, labourers and peasants, people just above the level of slaves.(The Economist)
9. Buoyed by their success, Wild Goose's organisers are planning to repeat the festival next year in the same bucolic place.(The Economist)
10. Cutting emissions may, however, mean scarring bucolic landscapes with wind farms, nuclear plants and the like.(The Economist)
11. MAPLE syrup evokes bucolic images of days spent in Canadian woods tapping trees and boiling the sap to concoct an ambrosial nectar.(The Economist)
12. The regions for which each PCC will be responsible are too big for genuinely local concerns to emerge easily: one commissioner must reflect the priorities of bucolic Somerset as well as Bristol's mean streets.(The Economist)
13. The demonstrators feared it would pollute the air in their bucolic district outside the city centre.(The Economist)
14. WATKINS PARK, with its meandering stream and its thicket of greenery, is as bucolic as downtown Indianapolis gets.(The Economist)
15. Republicans have spent much of 2015 on bucolic retreats, pondering how to remake America.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
bucolic scene, town, place, landscape, environment
词汇来源
"pastoral, relating to country life or the affairs and occupations of a shepherd," 1610s, earlier bucolical (1520s), from Latin bucolicus, from Greek boukolikos "pastoral, rustic," from boukolos "cowherd, herdsman," from bous "cow" (from PIE root *gwou- "ox, bull, cow") + -kolos "tending," related to Latin colere "to till (the ground), cultivate, dwell, inhabit" (from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell"). Middle Irish búachaill, Welsh bugail "shepherd" are Celtic words formed from the same root material as Greek boukolos.
近义词
country, rural, rustic (also rustical)
反义词
urban, citified, urbanized, metroplitan
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