Last week the idyll seemed to be over.

上周，这田园诗般的生活似乎要终结了。

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But time, unforgivingly, moves on. The idyll shows faultlines: infidelity, disease, age, loss, divorce.

但时间无情地流逝，田园牧歌出现了断层：不贞、疾病、高龄、亏损、离婚。

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Yet at the same time, I was a little annoyed, because I knew there was more to the idyll than met the eye.

然而与此同时，我也有点郁闷。因为我知道，所谓“田园情结”不仅限于眼光所及。

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And the plummy tones of Blowers instantly evoke the idyll of summer evenings, village greens and ample pints of frothing ale.

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But the rural idyll betrays deeper problems, according to Uradyn Bulag, an expert on Inner Mongolia at Hunter College in New York.

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Almost at once the area was thronged with wealthy British tourists, who saw in these peaceful, grand valleys the bucolic idyll they had lost in smoky, crowded Britain.

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