(chiefly poetic/literary)consisting of or associated with woods; wooded (主诗/文)森林的;多林木的 trees and contours all add to a sylvan setting. 树木和轮廓全都加重了森林的氛围。 ■pleasantly rural or pastoral 田园的 vistas of sylvan charm. 迷人的田园风光。
语源
mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting an inhabitant of the woods): from French sylvain or Latin Silvanus 'woodland deity', from silva 'a wood'