Eden
['i:dən]
解释:
(noun.) a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man).
(noun.) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
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解释:
(n.) The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.
录入:特德
解释:
n. the garden where Adam and Eve lived: a paradise.—adj. Eden′ic.
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例句:
- And, at all events, I have erected one thoroughly happy, peaceful spot,—a modern Eden,—and that is no easy thing to do in this riotous century. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- For, sailors to be got the better of, were essential to Miss Pleasant's Eden. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Some lives _are_ thus blessed: it is God's will: it is the attesting trace and lingering evidence of Eden. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- How tremblingly I approached the window and glanced into your Eden--an Eden for me, though a desert for you! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Maurice was in ecstasies over this Eden of the South, and could not express his delight in high enough terms to his companions. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I seemed to pay the deepest attention to him, but I was wandering in a garden of Eden all the while, with Dora. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- This is one of the roses of Eden that the Lord has dropped down expressly for the poor and lowly, who get few enough of any other kind. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Remember what Adam wanted when he was alone in the Garden of Eden; and if you don't blame it in Adam, don't blame it in me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- It is an old habit of the race which seems to have begun with the serpent in the Garden of Eden. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Canaries of unrivalled vivacity and intelligence: worthy of the garden of Eden, worthy also of the garden in the Regent's Park. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The reality is no more like it than the Five Points are like the Garden of Eden. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
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