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单词 Shangri-La
释义

Shangri-La

/ˌʃaŋɡrɪˈlɑː /
1A Tibetan utopia in James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon (1933).
1.1 (as noun a Shangri-La) A place regarded as an earthly paradise, especially when involving a retreat from the pressures of modern civilization: we moved out of Los Angeles and created this mountain-top Shangri-La...
  • What is known is that it is the ever-elusive Paradise or Nirvana or Shangri-La that everyone, especially Ibn Fattouma, is searching for.
  • We called it la-la land, a Shangri-La of dreams and reality.
  • At the end of this conversation, inevitably, looms a Shangri-La of potential script options and development deals.

Origin

From Shangri (an invented name) + Tibetan la 'mountain pass'.

Rhymes

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