halcyon

hal·cy·on /ˈhælsiən/ adjectiveadj

halcyon days literaryHAPPY a time in the past when you were very happy 美好的往昔

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halcyon days• The post-merger period amounted to halcyon days for Hook Harris.• Who, in its halcyon days, imagined Carthage a ballroom for the wind?• You're in a dreary barn of a place, its halcyon days long gone.• For a time the halcyon days of 1825 returned.• Hot, halcyon days of sunshine and vapour trails, butterflies and crammed picnic baskets.• He wrote and thanked the Lord Treasurer for restoring his halcyon days, showing his love for Halling.• It was from those halcyon days that the following story dates.• But the halcyon days were short-lived.

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halcyon• For a time the halcyon days of 1825 returned.

Origin halcyon