英语词汇shangri-la的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	shangri-la
词源	Shangri-la. This word, for “a paradise on earth,” came into the language in 1933, when English novelist James Hilton pub- lished his novel Lost Horizon, which described a hidden para- dise named Shangri-la. The name was used during World War II for the secret base from which U.S. planes flew to bomb Hi- roshima and Nagasaki. The secret base was Tinian Island in the Mariannas.
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