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词汇 Shangri-La
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Definition of Shangri-La in English:

Shangri-La

proper nounˌʃaŋɡrɪˈlɑːˌʃæŋɡriˈlɑ
  • 1A Tibetan utopia in James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon (1933).

    香格里拉(詹姆斯·希尔顿小说《失去的地平线》[1933]中描绘的西藏乌托邦)

    1. 1.1as noun a Shangri-La A place regarded as an earthly paradise, especially when involving a retreat from the pressures of modern civilization.
      (人间的)理想乐园,世外桃源
      we moved out of Los Angeles and created this mountain-top Shangri-La
      Example sentencesExamples
      • To most people, especially then, Patagonia was a name like Timbuktu or Shangri-La - far off, interesting, not quite on the map.
      • The oasis was like finding Shangri-La, or El Dorado, or Eden, or Valhalla, or… well, an oasis in the desert.
      • I worried also about the nature of our neighborhood, which is a redneck Shangri-La of big dawgs, trucks with bad mufflers, heavily armed Gomers, and gangs of marauding feral boys with BB guns.
      • You go just past Atlantis, hang a left at the Garden of Eden, keep going past Shangri-La, and make the first right turn past Never-Never Land.
      • Maharani dahl, my own private Shangri-La, brings beans and black lentils into divine harmony with butter, cream and majestic spices.
      • What's the point of fashioning 1,001 wondrous beasties and marvels - from Shangri-La to two-headed dinosaurs to a reconstructed Radio City cinema - if you swamp them in the shadows?
      • And I wanted to see if this road that once seemed as impossibly romantic as Xanadu or Shangri-La was where I had left them.
      • As the story lifts, Zhang slowly adds more colour until Wei's socks are bright red, of course, and that remote village starts to look like Shangri-La.
      • In the '60s and '70s, Europe was viewed in some corners as a kind of sexual Shangri-La, an idea brought home in the steady imports of European erotica to the grind houses of America.
      • What is known is that it is the ever-elusive Paradise or Nirvana or Shangri-La that everyone, especially Ibn Fattouma, is searching for.
      • They are rescued by a mysterious people who take them to a hidden Utopia called Shangri-La.
      • At the end of this conversation, inevitably, looms a Shangri-La of potential script options and development deals.
      • The story of how this trout Shangri-La fared in the twentieth century illustrates something few anglers consider: the changes their sport has undergone in the last century.
      • I'd hardly call it paradise, but it's better than Shangri-La, where they usually stick the freshmen.
      • Humans' desire to reshape nature to their benefit is nowhere better exemplified than in Yellowstone-even this trout Shangri-La could fulfill a greater potential, indeed, a greater vision.
      • For these closed-minded souls, the traditionalist society of the modern day Philippines should seem like Shangri-La, for here the age-old sexual roles are strictly enforced.
      • The whole idea of the film has a group of youngsters from around the world seeking a paradisiacal, off-the-beaten-track Shangri-La where they can kick back, laze about, smoke some dope and do as they wish.
      • With its Buddhist monasteries and prayer flags it bears a passing resemblance to some long lost Shangri-La.
      • Greendale is Young's idea of Shangri-La, where lumberjackets are always in style and girls with far-out tree-hugger names grow up to be ecologically responsible cheerleaders instead of SUV-driving mall rats.
      • We called it la-la land, a Shangri-La of dreams and reality.
      Synonyms
      ecstasy, bliss, rapture, contentment, happiness, delight, joy, felicity, supreme happiness, supreme joy, perfect contentment, seventh heaven, cloud nine

Origin

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

Rhymes

aargh, Accra, afar, ah, aha, aide-mémoire, ajar, Alcazar, are, Armagh, armoire, Artois, au revoir, baa, bah, bar, barre, bazaar, beaux-arts, Bekaa, bête noire, Bihar, bizarre, blah, Bogotá, Bonnard, bra, cafard, café noir, Calabar, car, Carr, Castlebar, catarrh, Changsha, char, charr, cigar, comme ci comme ça, commissar, coup d'état, de haut en bas, devoir, Dhofar, Directoire, Du Bois, Dumas, Dunbar, éclat, embarras de choix, escritoire, fah, famille noire, far, feu de joie, film noir, foie gras, Fra, galah, gar, guar, guitar, ha, hah, ha-ha, Halacha, hurrah, hussar, huzza, insofar, Invar, jar, je ne sais quoi, ka, kala-azar, Kandahar, khimar, Khorramshahr, knar, Krasnodar, Kwa, la-di-da, lah, Lehár, Loire, ma, mama, mamma, mar, Mardi Gras, ménage à trois, mirepoix, moire, nam pla, Navarre, noir, objet d'art, pa, pah, Panama, papa, par, Pará, Paraná, pas, pâté de foie gras, peau-de-soie, pietà, Pinot Noir, pooh-bah, poult-de-soie, pya, rah, registrar, Saar, Salazar, Sana'a, sang-froid, scar, schwa, Seychellois, shah, shikar, ska, sol-fa, spa, spar, star, Starr, Stranraer, ta, tahr, tar, tartare, tata, tra-la, tsar, Twa, Villa, voilà, waratah, yah

Definition of Shangri-La in US English:

Shangri-La

proper nounˌʃæŋɡriˈlɑˌSHaNGɡrēˈlä
  • 1A Tibetan utopia in James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon (1933).

    香格里拉(詹姆斯·希尔顿小说《失去的地平线》[1933]中描绘的西藏乌托邦)

    1. 1.1as noun a Shangri-La A place regarded as an earthly paradise, especially when involving a retreat from the pressures of modern civilization.
      (人间的)理想乐园,世外桃源
      we moved out of Los Angeles and created this mountain-top Shangri-La
      Example sentencesExamples
      • To most people, especially then, Patagonia was a name like Timbuktu or Shangri-La - far off, interesting, not quite on the map.
      • I'd hardly call it paradise, but it's better than Shangri-La, where they usually stick the freshmen.
      • Maharani dahl, my own private Shangri-La, brings beans and black lentils into divine harmony with butter, cream and majestic spices.
      • What's the point of fashioning 1,001 wondrous beasties and marvels - from Shangri-La to two-headed dinosaurs to a reconstructed Radio City cinema - if you swamp them in the shadows?
      • The oasis was like finding Shangri-La, or El Dorado, or Eden, or Valhalla, or… well, an oasis in the desert.
      • They are rescued by a mysterious people who take them to a hidden Utopia called Shangri-La.
      • In the '60s and '70s, Europe was viewed in some corners as a kind of sexual Shangri-La, an idea brought home in the steady imports of European erotica to the grind houses of America.
      • The story of how this trout Shangri-La fared in the twentieth century illustrates something few anglers consider: the changes their sport has undergone in the last century.
      • What is known is that it is the ever-elusive Paradise or Nirvana or Shangri-La that everyone, especially Ibn Fattouma, is searching for.
      • With its Buddhist monasteries and prayer flags it bears a passing resemblance to some long lost Shangri-La.
      • We called it la-la land, a Shangri-La of dreams and reality.
      • As the story lifts, Zhang slowly adds more colour until Wei's socks are bright red, of course, and that remote village starts to look like Shangri-La.
      • Greendale is Young's idea of Shangri-La, where lumberjackets are always in style and girls with far-out tree-hugger names grow up to be ecologically responsible cheerleaders instead of SUV-driving mall rats.
      • I worried also about the nature of our neighborhood, which is a redneck Shangri-La of big dawgs, trucks with bad mufflers, heavily armed Gomers, and gangs of marauding feral boys with BB guns.
      • At the end of this conversation, inevitably, looms a Shangri-La of potential script options and development deals.
      • For these closed-minded souls, the traditionalist society of the modern day Philippines should seem like Shangri-La, for here the age-old sexual roles are strictly enforced.
      • And I wanted to see if this road that once seemed as impossibly romantic as Xanadu or Shangri-La was where I had left them.
      • Humans' desire to reshape nature to their benefit is nowhere better exemplified than in Yellowstone-even this trout Shangri-La could fulfill a greater potential, indeed, a greater vision.
      • The whole idea of the film has a group of youngsters from around the world seeking a paradisiacal, off-the-beaten-track Shangri-La where they can kick back, laze about, smoke some dope and do as they wish.
      • You go just past Atlantis, hang a left at the Garden of Eden, keep going past Shangri-La, and make the first right turn past Never-Never Land.
      Synonyms
      ecstasy, bliss, rapture, contentment, happiness, delight, joy, felicity, supreme happiness, supreme joy, perfect contentment, seventh heaven, cloud nine

Origin

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

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