adj.乡间生活的,
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
pastoral (adjective)1.
a) (1) of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen
(2) devoted to or based on livestock raising
b) of or relating to the countryside not urban - a pastoral setting
c) portraying or expressive of the life of shepherds or country people especially in an idealized and conventionalized manner - pastoral poetry
d) pleasingly peaceful and innocent - idyllic
2.
a) of or relating to spiritual care or guidance especially of a congregation
b) of or relating to the of a church - pastor
1.
a) a literary work (as a poem or play) dealing with shepherds or rural life in a usually artificial manner and typically drawing a contrast between the innocence and serenity of the simple life and the misery and corruption of city and especially court life
b) pastoral poetry or drama
c) a rural picture or scene
d) - pastorale
2.
- crosier
3.
a letter of a to his charge as - pastor
a) a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese
b) a letter of the house of bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church to be read in each parish
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
pastoral (adjective)1.
of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people
SYNONYMS:
bucolic, country, pastoral, rustic ( rustical)RELATED WORDS:
backwoods, backwoodsy, countrified ( countryfied), provincial; agrarian, agricultural; nonurban, semiruralNEAR ANTONYMS:
citified, urbanized; metro, metropolitan, municipal; nonagricultural, nonfarm2.
of, relating to, or characteristic of the clergy
SYNONYMS:
clerkly, ministerial, pastoral, priestly, sacerdotalRELATED WORDS:
evangelical ( evangelic), missionary; apostolic, canonical, diaconal, diocesan, episcopal, papal, patriarchal, pontifical; churchly, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical; divine, holy, religious, sacramental; conventual, mendicant, monachal, monastic; caliphal, rabbinic ( rabbinical)