词组 | sweetness and light |
释义 | 1 social or political harmony. 2 a reasonable and peaceable person. ☞ This is a phrase used by Jonathan Swift in The Battle of the Books (1704) and taken up by Matthew Arnold in Culture and Anarchy (1869): 'The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light'. |
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