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 abyss [ə'bɪs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 深渊, 深邃, 地狱

  1. He has been in the abyss of despair.
    他已陷入绝望的深渊。
  2. An abyss; a chasm.
    深渊;裂缝
  3. A deep, steep-sided opening in the earth's surface; an abyss or a gorge.
    裂缝土地表面上深的、陡峭的缝隙;深渊或峡谷


abyss
[ noun ]
a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
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Abyss \A*byss"\, n. [L. abyssus a bottomless gulf, fr. Gr. ?
bottomless; 'a priv. + ? depth, bottom.]
1. A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence,
any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the
bottomless pit.

Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss.
--Milton.

The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light.
--Dryden.

2. Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.

The abysses of metaphysical theology. --Macaulay.

In unfathomable abysses of disgrace. --Burke.

3. (Her.) The center of an escutcheon.

Note: This word, in its leading uses, is associated with the
cosmological notions of the Hebrews, having reference
to a supposed illimitable mass of waters from which our
earth sprung, and beneath whose profound depths the
wicked were punished. --Encyc. Brit.

  1. But even a congenital optimist has to acknowledge that the trigger point, if it exists for the Soviets, lies deep in the coming abyss.
  2. "Ballooning wages and rising inflation won't push Sweden's economy into the abyss next year," Mr. Feldt said; however, he added that both trends threaten to undermine the competitive strength of Swedish industry in the longer term.
  3. The communists have no means to avert the approaching abyss, and no coherent plans.
  4. Originally the piece trod a skilful path over an abyss of Victorian prettiness and excessive Mendelssohnian charm.
  5. "People are going to start questioning the value of environmental projects" related to water if "the poor are pushed into the abyss" by water bills, says Mr. Ciolek.
  6. But army helicopters later dropped leaflets inviting people to a rally today to protest the "abyss of independence."
  7. "Instead of saving the country, bureaucratic capitalism can only drive the masses of the Chinese people into an abyss of misery," said the commentary, reprinted Saturday in the official China Daily.
  8. He said his country was 'being pushed to the abyss'.
  9. Many ski to the edge, and stare into the abyss, feeling that mixture of fear and excitement luring them nearer the point of no return.
  10. What happens if it disappears into an electronic abyss?
  11. Now, with America seen to be arming those forces in the region that threaten them the most, the Middle East's real moderates are staring into the abyss.
  12. But Mr. Marks rightly reminds us that it was FDR's failures of leadership that led him and the world to the edge of the abyss.
  13. Hal Holbrook, representing the "good" Wall Street of yesteryear, pops up periodically to mumble something about the "fundamentals" and "looking into the abyss."
  14. The liberal daily La Jornada said in a front-page editorial Tuesday that "the abyss of police criminality causes vertigo" and that a full investigation would find that the case prompting the dismissal was not the only incident of wrongdoing.
  15. And an eleventh-hour advertising campaign, attacking Dole and touting the support of Barry Goldwater, helped bring him back from the edge of the abyss.
  16. France stared into the abyss and realised the absolute necessity of re-cementing the Franco-German axis as the working motor of Europe.
  17. The silk stole of a saint was like a ladder over the abyss. Many would cross in safety thanks to the power of their faith and the prayers of their loved ones.
  18. This is the abyss on the way.
  19. Gorbachev's conciliatory tone comes after the Communist Party Central Committee last month warned that separatists were leading the Baltic republics into an abyss.
  20. This newspaper reported a couple of weeks ago that the marketing people at Fox Inc.'s film division were worried that many Americans don't know the meaning of "abyss."
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