Abyss
[ə'bɪs]
解释:
(noun.) a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively).
阿弗丽达整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.
(n.) Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.
(n.) The center of an escutcheon.
手打:洛雷塔
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Gulf, gorge, great depth, bottomless gulf or pit.[2]. Hell, limbo, purgatory.
杰弗里整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Gulf, profound, gorge, deep, pit, chasm, depth
ANT:Surface, cavity, depression, indentation
编辑:奥马尔
解释:
n. a bottomless gulf: a deep mass of water.—adj. Abyss′al.
编辑:帕特里克
娱乐性解释：
To dream of looking into an abyss, means that you will be confronted by threats of seizure of property, and that there will be quarrels and reproaches of a personal nature which will unfit you to meet the problems of life. For a woman to be looking into an abyss, foretells that she will burden herself with unwelcome cares. If she falls into the abyss her disappointment will be complete; but if she succeeds in crossing, or avoiding it, she will reinstate herself.
校对:奥菲莉娅
例句:
- There is more in it than thou dost guess, Conrade; thy simplicity is no match for this deep abyss of wickedness. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Never shall I forget the Duke's appearance as he sprang up and clawed with his hands, like one who is sinking into an abyss. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- How do heat and light travel through this vast abyss of space? 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- There was nothing else left to do; after that he would allow the enigma to drop into the abyss of undiscoverable things. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- May-- he began, standing a few feet from her chair, and looking over at her as if the slight distance between them were an unbridgeable abyss. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- She knew her life trembled on the edge of an abyss. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I am not a fanciful person, but I give you my word that I seemed to hear Moriarty's voice screaming at me out of the abyss. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Oh, God, could one bear it, this past which was gone down the abyss? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- And all the time he was like a man hung in chains over the edge of an abyss. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding, and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Instead of sinking on the steps as I intended, I seemed to pitch headlong down an abyss. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- You feel as if you were at the bottom of some tremendous abyss, with all the world far above you. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Two tears, the parched tears of the old, rolled down her puffy cheeks and vanished in the abysses of her bosom. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
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