常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

bucolic

アメリカのbucolic scenesをながめながら靜かな時を過ごすというのはこれまで激動の日々を送ってきたスーチー女史には何よりのものでしょう。bucolicは「羊飼いの」から「牧歌的な、素朴な」という意味が派生した単語です。(UG)



On Tuesday, Suu Kyi was photographed laughing with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The two sat on couches next to each other at the State Department in Clinton's private office and chatted. Clinton told Suu Kyi about the bucolic scenes she could expect to see when she went to southern part of the U.S.

"You're going out to one of the horse farms. Those are beautiful places. They're called bluegrass the way it looks across the field," Clinton said to a smiling Suu Kyi. "You'll find that quite beautiful."

That scene, historic and high profile, was just Day One of the next 17 days on Suu Kyi's calendar on her first visit to America.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/19/world/myanmar-suu-kyi-us-tour/index.html?iid=article_sidebar