paradise

• n. 天堂
• 至福境地

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(jīng)中所描述的伊甸園，引申詞義天堂，天國等。

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 ‘a(chǎn)round’ (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.

1. To the former Belgian colonizers, Rwanda was a paradise.

對(duì)于以前的比利時(shí)殖民者來說，盧旺達(dá)就是個(gè)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(jīng)》將天國描述成一個(gè)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(shí)生活的理想形式。

來自《權(quán)威詞典》