abyss是什么意思

双语例句

(1)He fell into the abyss of gambling and couldn't help himself.

他陷入了赌博的深渊无法自拔。

(2)He found himself unable to escape the abyss.

他发现自己已经无法逃出困境。

(3)This devout believer holds that the wicked will go to the abyss.

这位虔诚的教徒相信恶人会下地狱。

(4)An abyss is a very deep hole in the ground.

深渊是地面上一个很深的洞

(5)The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss.

因融化的雪水而高涨的急流泻入一个巨大的深渊之中。

(6)She saw him running to a dangerous abyss on the side.

她看见他跑向边上一个危险的深渊。

(7)The country is stepping back from the edge of an abyss.

该国临渊而退。

(8)The old society was an abyss of darkness.

旧社会暗无天日。

(9)I stared up the next ramp into the black abyss, and decided that I should get back, for all I knew this could go on forever.

我抬头看看下一个斜坡，只看见黑洞洞的一片，所以我就打算返回了，因为我知道这将永无止境。

同义词

n. 深渊；深邃，无底洞

同根词

词根 abyss

(1)abyssal adj. 深渊的，深海的；深不可测的

释义

n.

a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm

深渊

a rope led down into the dark abyss.

一条绳子垂向黑暗的深渊。

figurative a wide or profound difference between people; a gulf

〈喻〉 （人与人之间的）巨大差异；鸿沟

the abyss between the two nations.

两个民族间的鸿沟。

figurative the regions of hell conceived of as a bottomless pit

〈喻〉 （地狱中的）无底深渊

Satan's dark abyss.

撒旦的黑暗深渊。

(the abyss)figurative a catastrophic situation seen as likely to occur

〈喻〉 （可能发生的）灾难性局势

teetering on the edge of the abyss of a total political wipeout.

飘摇于政治上彻底覆灭的边缘。

词源

"late Middle English （in the sense ‘infernal pit’）： via late Latin from Greek abussos ‘bottomless', from a- ‘without' + bussos ‘depth’."

(1)I remember you tossing me into an abyss. I, who was, and should be, king!

我永远忘不了是你把我扔到深渊里，我是谁？我可是国王。《The Avengers》《复仇者联盟》

(2)You either take a step down the correct career path. Or you fall into a life sucking abyss.

你要么选对行业前途无量，要么跌入一生爬不出来的万丈深渊。《Transformers: Dark of the Moon》《变形金刚3》