(Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death
例句
用作名词 (n.)
Hawaii is called an island paradise. 夏威夷被称为海岛乐园。
I see no sign of the actual approach of this hundred per cent French paradise. 我看不出有什么迹象表明这种十全十美的法国天堂真正会到来。
Hong Kong is a travellers' paradise. 香港是旅游者的乐园。
This club is a paradise for athletes. 这个俱乐部是运动员的天堂。
常见句型
用作名词 (n.)
用作表语
The tropical islands are an earthly paradise. 那些热带岛屿是人间乐园。
It's poet's paradise. 它是诗人的天堂。
These forests are a hunter's paradise. 这些森林是猎人的乐园。
The airport is a paradise for pickpockets. 机场是扒手的天堂。
Hong Kong is a paradise for shoppers. 香港是购物者的天堂。
The island was a paradise of birds and flowers. 这座岛是花和鸟的天堂。
Here is the “Paradise of the Pacific”. 这儿是“太平洋上的乐园”。
It's paradise to be by a warm fire on a cold night. 在寒冷的夜晚靠着温暖的炉火是最大的幸福。
It's sheer paradise to relax in a hot bath after a hard day's work. 一天的辛苦工作之后在热水浴缸中松弛一下真是最大的享受。
用作动词宾语
They moved to the country hoping to find paradise. 他们搬到了乡下,想在那里找寻乐土。
She worked on the garden until she had created her own little paradise. 她一直侍弄着花园,直到把那里变成了自己小小的乐园。
My house had a small backyard, the paradise of children. 我那幢房子有一个小后院,那是孩子们玩耍的乐园。
用作介词宾语
Adam and Eve dwelt in Paradise. 亚当和夏娃生活在伊甸园里。
We found ourselves in a tropical paradise. 我们发现自己身处热带天堂。
She indeed lives in a fool's paradise as she always dreams about making a huge fortune overnight. 她总想顷刻间大发横财,的确有点想入非非。
She thinks they can get married on his earnings of only fifty pounds a week but she's living in a fool's paradise. 她以为他每周只要挣50英镑,他们就可以结婚,但她是陶醉在虚无缥缈的乐境之中而已。
You've been living in a fool's paradise.How long do you think we can go on spending our money without earning more? 你一直陶醉在虚假的幸福生活中,你以为我们这样光花不挣能过多久呢?
Parts of California seem like Paradise to me. 加利福尼亚的一些地区对我来说就像天堂一样。
Being alone is her idea of paradise. 她认为一人独处最美。
When we die, we go to Paradise. 我们死后会上天堂。
They all expected to go to paradise. 他们都想进天堂。
The person as good as he is deserves to go to paradise. 像他这样的好人应当进天堂。
My beloved wife went to Paradise after nine-month illness. 我的爱妻病了九个月后到天国去了。
经典引文
She tasted paradise on earth.
出自: I. McEwan
The Vienna of 1791 appeared to a later generation to have been a musical paradise.