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词汇 Xanadu
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Definition of Xanadu in English:

Xanadu

nounPlural Xanadus ˈzanəduːˈzanəˌdo͞o
  • An idealized place of great or idyllic magnificence and beauty.

    three architects and a planner combine to create a Xanadu

    三名建筑师与一名规划师合力创造一座华厦。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I meet this unlikely pair at Bertram's Longfellow home, a Xanadu of domesticity that she shares with her husband.
    • For the hardcore, even if you never get to MetroFlex, knowing that such a Xanadu still exists should gladden your heart.
    • The village is just like a Xanadu concealed in the mountain.
    • Coleridge created his Xanadu by locating his poems in the true, at many levels, and working towards a kind of exorcism and expiation.
    • Old fields like the Polo Grounds and Forbes Field were personality-packed Xanadus.
    • Scientists believe they have spotted a continent, which they're calling Xanadu.
    • ‘This world he has created is a Xanadu, an Eden of sorts,’ the actor carries on.
    • In the 1990s, he built his own Xanadu, Cuixmala, amid 2,000 acres of rainforest in Yucatan, Mexico.
    • Everywhere you looked, serious, august news organizations were indulging very spoiled, very rich men who've built their own Xanadus the same way boys build forts out of sofa cushions and bed sheets.

Origin

Alteration of Shang-tu, the name of an ancient city in what is now the Inner Mongolia region of China, as portrayed in Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan (1816).

Definition of Xanadu in US English:

Xanadu

nounˈzanəˌdo͞o
  • An idealized place of great or idyllic magnificence and beauty.

    three architects and a planner combine to create a Xanadu

    三名建筑师与一名规划师合力创造一座华厦。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the 1990s, he built his own Xanadu, Cuixmala, amid 2,000 acres of rainforest in Yucatan, Mexico.
    • Old fields like the Polo Grounds and Forbes Field were personality-packed Xanadus.
    • I meet this unlikely pair at Bertram's Longfellow home, a Xanadu of domesticity that she shares with her husband.
    • Scientists believe they have spotted a continent, which they're calling Xanadu.
    • Everywhere you looked, serious, august news organizations were indulging very spoiled, very rich men who've built their own Xanadus the same way boys build forts out of sofa cushions and bed sheets.
    • Coleridge created his Xanadu by locating his poems in the true, at many levels, and working towards a kind of exorcism and expiation.
    • The village is just like a Xanadu concealed in the mountain.
    • ‘This world he has created is a Xanadu, an Eden of sorts,’ the actor carries on.
    • For the hardcore, even if you never get to MetroFlex, knowing that such a Xanadu still exists should gladden your heart.

Origin

Alteration of Shang-tu, the name of an ancient city in what is now the Inner Mongolia region of China, as portrayed in Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan (1816).

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