mindmap root((乡村)) rural suggests open country and farming: a diminishing portion of the island remains ~. rustic suggests a contrast with city life and connotes rudeness and lack of polish: a hunting lodge filled with ~ furniture and decoration. pastoral implies an idealized simplicity and peacefulness and apartness from the world: the ~ setting of an exclusive health resort. bucolic may refer to either the charming and desirable or the undesirable aspects of country life: fed-up city dwellers imagining a ~ bliss; trapped in a ~ nightmare.