| 词汇 | paradise |
| 释义 | paradise noun[ Cusually singular, U ] uk /ˈpær.ə.daɪs/ us /ˈper.ə.daɪs/ C1 a place or condition of great happiness where everything is exactly as you would like it to be: 天堂，乐园 a tropical paradise一处热带天堂 His idea of paradise is to spend the day lying on the beach.他心目中的天堂生活就是整天躺在沙滩上休闲。 This mall is a shopper's paradise.这个商业中心是购物者的天堂。 Paradise Heaven: 天堂，天国 They believe they'll go to Paradise after they die.他们相信自己死后会上天堂。 the garden of Eden (= the place where Adam and Eve lived, in the Bible story)伊甸园 Pleasant and make-believe places atmospherically fairyland far from the madding crowdidiom hotspot lotus land madding meatspace never-never land oasis street suntrap the streets are paved with goldidiom treasure trove wonderland You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Religious concepts: Heaven The Bible - people, events & places paradise | American Dictionaryparadise noun[ U ] us/ˈpær·əˌdɑɪs, -ˌdɑɪz/ a place or condition of great happiness where everything is exactly as you would like it to be: His idea of paradise is to spend the day sailing. infml This place is a shopper’s/children’s/pickpocket’s paradise (= a place where the conditions are exactly right for them). Paradise is another word for heaven. Examples of paradiseparadise He had no belief in earthly paradises, either in the past or the future, nor did he need them. The cloister is a 'true paradise', and the surrounding countryside shares in its dignity. Within a few years, the coastline was transformed in a 700 billion-lire tourist paradise. Marriage therefore is part of paradise, and is inherently good. Come what may, we cannot regain the paradise lost. Priests preached a rosy afterlife in paradise, while advocating the benefits they could obtain in this life. The second unnatural feature is that the children of paradise grow up without consciousness. A series of universes increasingly approximates biological paradise. How could we do so if we inhabited a paradise ? The capitalist paradise generates its own excess, which the video annihilates in an operation that must recapitulate what it resists. Many of these are mentioned in his letters, which reveal an almost encyclopaedic interest in the theme of the earthly paradise. He is ruined by his inability to adapt to the patriarchal order, and by his impossible desire for a maternal paradise. The nuns' reproduction of the fallen world they have left behind is the other side of their attempt to substitute that world for paradise. The latter assumes the value of a paradise lost. I can think of better lawyers' paradises than that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of paradise These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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