| 单词 | garden of eden |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGarden of Eden Garden of Eden n. (a) Christian Church the abode of Adam and Eve at their creation (cf. Eden n.1 1); (b) a place or region of surpassing beauty or delight, or of supreme bliss; a paradise (in later use chiefly attributive). [After German Garten Eden (1523 in Luther, or earlier) and its model Hebrew gan-ʿēḏen. At Genesis 3:23 the Vulgate and Septuagint have post-classical Latin paradisus voluptatis and Hellenistic Greek παράδεισος τῆς τρυφῆς respectively, lit. ‘paradise of pleasure’ (see paradise n.).] ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > paradise paradiseOE Eden1382 Garden of Eden1535 Garden of God1535 the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] > place of supreme happiness heaveneOE Edena1225 paradise?a1300 Garden of Eden1535 eutopia1553 happy land1562 Arcady1590 Hesperidesa1592 Elysiuma1616 God's own country1807 lotusland1856 Adamless Eden1876 summerland1895 Shangri-La1941 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. iii. D Then the Lorde God put him out of the garden of Eden [Ger. garten Eden]. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Ezek. xxxvi. 35 This waste land was like the garden of Eden, and these waste and desolate and ruinous cities were strong, and were inhabited. 1608 J. Denison Three-fold Resol. iii. §9. 218 We are now entring into the garden of Adonis..which the world makes her garden of Eden. 1752 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 454 A garden of Eden, from which..my sister-in-law long ago gathered passion-fruit. 1791 T. Beddoes tr. J. K. A. Musäus Pop. Tales of Germans II. 266 The new-married couple spent their honey-moon..in mutual happiness and innocent enjoyments, like the first human pair in the garden of Eden. 1804 Weekly Entertainer 25 June 505 Turn our land, which is before them like the Garden of Eden, into a waste howling wilderness. 1871 W. Denton Common Sense Thoughts Bible (ed. 4) 33 The writer of the garden-of-Eden story in Genesis commences the mischief. 1918 R. Kipling Land & Sea Tales (1923) 120 Garden-of-Eden picnics for weeks an' weeks. 1990 H. Atkins tr. K. S. Guthke Last Frontier v. 378 They represent..the state of sinlessness in the Garden of Eden before the temptation by the serpent. 2006 Palm Beach Life Jan. 117/1 They have increased awareness of the gardens to the general public..by the very magic of viewing the juxtaposition of plants and glass in a rich Garden of Eden setting. < as lemmas |
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