heaven

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heav·en /ˈhevən/ S3 W3 noun

1 place of god 天堂 (also Heaven) [singular]RR the place where God is believed to live and where good people are believed to go when they die 天堂，天国，极乐世界 → paradise

in heaven

He believed that he and his wife would one day be together again in heaven.

他相信他和妻子有一天会在天国重聚。

2 enjoyable situation 极乐 [uncountableU] informalGOOD/EXCELLENT an extremely enjoyable situation or place 极好的情况[地方] SYN paradise

Sitting by the pool with a good book is my idea of heaven.

坐在水池边看一本好书就是我心目中的极乐之事。

in heaven

Put a baseball in his hand and he’s in heaven.

给他一个棒球他就觉得美极了。

Living on the farm for Jim was heaven on earth.

对吉姆来说，农场生活就是人间天堂。

a match/marriage made in heaven (=a happy and successful marriage) 天作之合/美满婚姻

SPOKEN PHRASES

8 the heavens literaryAL the sky 天空

He looked up towards the heavens.

他仰望苍穹。

Just then, the heavens opened (=it started to rain heavily).

就在那时，下起了倾盆大雨。

Examples from the Corpus

the heavens opened• As his relations carried him off to be buried, the sky suddenly darkened and the heavens opened.• It went from bad to worse as the heavens opened and turned the circuit into one huge puddle.• He'd come out without his anorak and if the heavens opened he'd get soaked.• Just as we set off, would you believe it, the heavens opened.• Unfortunately, the Heavens opened on finals day, ending the good weather and causing disruptions.

9 move heaven and earth TRY TO DO OR GET somethingto try very hard to achieve something 竭尽全力，用尽各种方法

I would move heaven and earth to help her.

我会竭尽全力帮助她。

Examples from the Corpus

move heaven and earth• Bishop Auckland have also moved heaven and earth to improve their standing.• If you knew what I was doing you'd have moved heaven and earth to stop me.• So together we moved heaven and earth to ensure, in a difficult year, that the necessary money was made available.• We've all experienced it and most of us would move heaven and earth to avoid it.

→ be in seventh heaven at seventh1(2), → thank heaven(s) at thank(2)

Examples from the Corpus

heaven• Well the sun is blazing down from the clear blue heavens.• It's the most extraordinary place - both heaven and hell simultaneously.• I used to think I had died and gone to rank-and-file heaven.• The new kitchen is heaven compared to the old one.

in heaven• Star Trek fans were in heaven today at the Science Fiction Convention.

a match/marriage made in heaven• It was a marriage made in heaven that seemed to deteriorate to hell in a hurry.• Her friends all thought that theirs was a match made in heaven, the union of two gilded human beings.

Origin heaven

Old English heofon

heav·en noun →SPOKEN PHRASES1

Chinese

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