| 单词 | paradise |
| 释义 | paradise (pærədaɪs ) Word forms: paradises 1. proper noun According to some religions, paradise is a wonderful place where people go after they die, if they have led good lives. The Koran describes paradise as a place containing a garden of delight. If they were captured they wished to die, believing that they would go to paradise. Synonyms: heaven, Promised Land, Zion, City of God 2. variable noun You can refer to a place or situation that seems beautiful or perfect as paradise or a paradise. ...one of the world's great natural paradises. This place is what my father would call a paradise, with wide open spaces on all sides. 3. countable noun You can use paradise to say that a place is very attractive to a particular kind of person and has everything they need for a particular activity. The Algarve is a golfer's paradise. Very few people have the money to take advantage of this consumer paradise. 4. See also fool's paradise Quotations: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise aloneThe Garden Idioms: live in a fool's paradise to believe wrongly and stupidly that your situation is good, when really it is not English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The recession has started. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: tropical paradise It was our first visit to this tropical paradise. Christianity Today Generally basking in the balmy, lazy, humid tropical paradise wonderfulness. Times,Sunday Times This service will allow travellers to instantly enjoy their tropical paradise even when they are missing their suitcase. The Sun They say 'tropical paradise'; we say 'dank fleapit on dual carriageway'. Times, Sunday Times Just because you live on the 28th floor of a block of flats, doesn't mean you can't make it feel like a tropical paradise. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 天堂 Japanese: 楽園 |
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