paradise
英 ['p?r?da?s]
美['p?r?'da?s]
- n. 天堂
- 至福境地
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詞態(tài)變化
復數(shù):?paradises;
助記提示
1. Daughter in the paradise.
中文詞源
paradise 天堂，天國
來自拉丁語paradisus,來自希臘語paradeisos,伊甸園，天堂，花園，來自para-,在旁，在周圍，-deisos,建造，修建，來自PIE*dheigh,建造，詞源同dough,figure.即修建的花園，最早用于指圣經中所描述的伊甸園，引申詞義天堂，天國等。
英文詞源
- paradise
- paradise: [12] Paradise comes from an ancient Persian word meaning ‘enclosed place’. In Avestan, the Indo-European language in which the Zoroastrian religious texts were written, pairidaēza was a compound formed from pairi ‘around’ (a relative of Greek péri, from which English gets the prefix peri-) and diz ‘make, form’ (which comes from the same Indo- European source as produced English dairy, dough, and the second syllable of lady).
Greek took the word over as parádeisos, and specialized ‘enclosed place’ to an ‘enclosed park’; and in the Greek version of the Bible it was applied to the ‘garden of Eden’. English acquired the word via Latin paradīsus and Old French paradis.
=> dairy, dough, lady - paradise (n.)
- late 12c., "Garden of Eden," from Old French paradis "paradise, Garden of Eden" (11c.), from Late Latin paradisus, from Greek paradeisos "park, paradise, Garden of Eden," from an Iranian source similar to Avestan pairidaeza "enclosure, park" (Modern Persian and Arabic firdaus "garden, paradise"), compound of pairi- "around" + diz "to make, form (a wall)."
The first element is cognate with Greek peri- "around, about" (see per), the second is from PIE root *dheigh- "to form, build" (see dough).
The Greek word, originally used for an orchard or hunting park in Persia, was used in Septuagint to mean "Garden of Eden," and in New Testament translations of Luke xxiii:43 to mean "heaven" (a sense attested in English from c. 1200). Meaning "place like or compared to Paradise" is from c. 1300.
雙語例句
- 1. To the former Belgian colonizers, Rwanda was a paradise.
- 對于以前的比利時殖民者來說，盧旺達就是個天堂。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The Koran describes paradise as a place containing a garden of delight.
- 《古蘭經》將天國描述成一個樂園。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. They lived in an earthly paradise.
- 他們生活在人間天堂。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The Algarve is a golfer's paradise.
- 阿爾加維是高爾夫球手的天堂。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The ancient Egyptians saw paradise as an idealized version of their own lives.
- 古埃及人把天堂視為他們現(xiàn)實生活的理想形式。
來自《權威詞典》