xanadu

n. 华厦,行宫,世外桃源

Xanadu 世外桃源

来自元朝上都的音译，由马可波罗将该词带入欧洲，由于马可波罗对该城梦幻般的描述，因此，该词就赋予了仙境，世外桃源等含义。比较Cathay.

1. Do you know Xanadu has a branch nearby?
   知不知道瘦丽堂在你附近开分店？
2. All right, xanadu, I knew it all the time.
   对了，上都，我一直是知道的。
3. It only takes more than ten minutes to ride from Hangzhou Railway Station to Sofitel Hangzhou Xanadu Resort.
   从杭州火车站驱车不过十几分钟便来到索菲特世外桃源度假酒店。
4. Today almost as legendary as florida's xanadu.
   今天，佛罗里达的“上都”同样是一个传奇。
5. Sydney-based Xanadu, which focuses on mining Mongolian coal, is also seeking a Hong Kong waiver.
   专门开采蒙古煤矿的悉尼xanadu公司，也正在寻求香港交易所的豁免权。
6. If such a quiet life and the then relative social instability ratio is simply a billowing out of this world of Xanadu.
   这种宁静的生活若和当时动荡的社会相对比，简直就是一块脱离滚滚尘寰的“世外桃源”。
7. That implies that anyone posting a Xanadu document grants the world a licence to quote from it, charging the reader a one-time fee if they wish – a principle I call "transcopyright".
   其含义是，如果一个人贴出一个Xanadu文件，就意味着他授权这个世界上任何人可以去引用这个文件，当然有时会收费&这就是我所谓的“泛版权”（transcopyright）。
8. The Xanadu complex is mutual to Shen Congwen and readers, is human's pursuit and expectation to ideal homestead.
   “桃源”情结是沈从文和读者共有的，是人类对理想家园的追寻和期待。
9. His theory of harmonious ideological had played a very important influence no matter in the past era or nowadays, that affect people's self consciousness. For thousands of years, control the survival pattern of Xanadu Nation and form the peculiar national psychology national character.
   他的和谐思想无论在当时还是对后世都产生了极其重要的影响，数千年来始终影响着我国人民的自我意识，支配着华夏民族的生存样式，构成了中华民族特有的民族心理和民族性格。
10. Xanadu garden Of the Qing dynasty is a special branch of royal gardens, which is the concentrated model for the combination of royal garden and utility functionism idea.
    清代行宫园林是皇家园林中特殊的一个分支，是皇家园林和实用功能主义思想结合的浓缩典范。
11. And the more advanced society, the more abundant material things, the spirit of squeezing a sense of loss, the more serious flu, the foundation of the pursuit of survival and self-identity more urgent, but also brought about by Xanadu comfort the soul.
    而且社会越进步，物质的东西越丰厚，精神的挤压感、彷徨感越严重，对生存根基的追寻和自我身份的确认更迫切，更需要世外桃源所带来的心灵慰藉。