| 词汇 | apples of paradise |
| 词源 | apples of paradise. According to tradition, each of the apples in the Garden of Eden had a bite taken from it after Eve took a bite of the forbidden fruit. Over the years apples of paradise, re- ferring to the apples in Eden, has come to mean forbidden fruit. |
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