单词	paradise
释义	paradisepar‧a‧dise /ˈpærədaɪs/ ●●○ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINparadise Origin: 1100-1200 Old French, Late Latin, from Greek paradeisos ‘enclosed park’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES For the new immigrants, America seemed like paradise. Tonga is a tropical paradise. With so many inexpensive fashion stores, it's a bargain-hunter's paradise. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And if that were to happen, paradise could not be far behind. Brooklands was like paradise to 19 year old Jack. But this monopolistic paradise has been lost. Humans later followed them to enter a hunting paradise. It is about a paradise one can not have. What does a photographer look for when commissioned to shoot pristine paradise? Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► an island paradise · She had booked a beach house on the island paradise of Phuket. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► earthly · All men go through life clinging to an idea of an earthly paradise.· There are waterfalls and cascades, cliffs and rocks, native trees and rampant heather in an earthly paradise.· But a new element in Montaigne's essay was its suggestion that the earthly paradise might be a still existing real place. ► tropical · A serious photographer can not afford to work in any tropical paradise without shooting from the air.· The view is of downtown Bethesda, not exactly a tropical paradise.· The tropical paradise trip was a reward for 40 years' service with the Severn Trent water company. VERB► live · The very servants live in paradise.· While to the latter the former seem to be living either in paradise or cloud-cuckoo-land. 1[uncountable] a place or situation that is extremely pleasant, beautiful, or enjoyable:  a beautiful tropical paradise The hotel felt like paradise after two weeks of camping. A home near the sea is my idea of paradise.2[singular] a place that has everything you need for doing a particular activity:  The market is a shopper’s paradise.paradise for Hawaii is a paradise for surfers.3Paradise [singular] a)in some religions, a perfect place where people are believed to go after they die, if they have led good lives → heaven b)according to the Bible, the garden where the first humans, Adam and Eve, lived → bird of paradise, → be living in a fool’s paradise at fool1(9)
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