haven与paradise的区别

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haven:港口; 避风锚地;避难所; 安息所

你问的是heaven吧!
Heaven tells us about a place very beautiful and far away, it is in our imagination and maybe it's not, but heaven is a very nice place.
For example: She was in heaven and she was very happy.

Perhaps the supreme example of the semantic process known as melioration is the word paradise. In tracing this word from its origins to its present status, we see an elevation, or melioration, of meaning that raises the word to new heights. The history begins with the Avestan (the eastern dialect of Old Iranian) word pairi-da¶, “enclosure,” made up of pairi, “around,” and da¶, “wall.” The Greek military leader and historian Xenophon, who served with Greek mercenaries in Persia, first used the Greek word paradeisos adopted from the Avestan word to refer to the Persian kings' and nobles' parks or pleasure grounds. This Greek word extended to mean “garden” or “orchard” was an obvious choice for tr