heav‧en S3 W3 / hev ə n / 名词
1 place of god ( also Heaven ) [单数形式] the place where God is believed to live and where good people are believed to go when they die → paradise
in heaven
He believed that he and his wife would one day be together again in heaven.
2 enjoyable situation [不可数名词] informal an extremely enjoyable situation or place 同义词 paradise :
Sitting by the pool with a good book is my idea of heaven.
in heaven
Put a baseball in his hand and he’s in heaven.
Living on the farm for Jim was heaven on earth .
a match/marriage made in heaven (= a happy and successful marriage ) SPOKEN PHRASES
3 for heaven’s sake
a) used to show that you are annoyed or angry :
Oh, for heaven’s sake, Mark, do you have to make everything into a joke?
b) used to emphasize a question, request, order, or opinion :
For heaven’s sake, let’s all get to sleep.
4 heaven (only) knows
a) used to emphasize that you do not know something :
He won’t tell me what he thinks. Heaven knows why.
b) used to emphasize what you are saying :
Sue can’t take a holiday yet, though heaven knows she needs a rest.
5 heaven help somebody
a) used to express sympathy for someone who is in a dangerous or difficult situation :
‘The two boys are going to the dentist on Thursday.’ ‘Heaven help the dentist.’
b) used to say that you will be very angry with someone if they do something :
Heaven help him if he ever comes back here again!
6 heaven forbid used to say that you very much hope something will not happen :
What would you do financially if, heaven forbid, your husband died?
7 what/how/why etc in heaven’s name used when asking a surprised and angry question :
Where in heaven’s name have you been?
8 the heavens literary the sky :
He looked up towards the heavens.
Just then, the heavens opened (= it started to rain heavily ) .
9 move heaven and earth to try very hard to achieve something :
I would move heaven and earth to help her.
→ be in seventh heaven at seventh 1 ( 2 ) , → thank heaven(s) at thank ( 2 )