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。 ■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)
派生 idyllist noun 语源
late 16th cent. (in the Latin form): from Latin idyllium, from Greek eidullion, diminutive of eidos 'form, picture'