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单词 abyss
释义
abyss
noun[Cusually singular]
uk
/əˈbɪs/us
/əˈbɪs/

abyssnoun[C usually singular](HOLE)

literary
a verydeepholethatseemsto have nobottom
深渊
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canyon
chasm
cleft
craternoun
crevasse
defilenounliterary
gorgenoun(VALLEY)
gulf(AREA)formal
gully(CHANNEL)
ravine
rift
sinkholenoun(HOLE)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Geography: valleys
  • arroyo
  • canyon
  • chasm
  • cirque
  • corrie
  • cwm
  • dale
  • defile
  • dell
  • glen
  • gorge
  • gulch
  • gully
  • hanging valley
  • inter-valley
  • landform
  • rift valley
  • vale
  • valley
  • wadi
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abyssnoun[C usually singular](BAD SITUATION)

adifficultsituationthatbringstroubleordestruction:
困境；险境；绝境
Thecountryissinking/plungingintoan abyssofviolenceandlawlessness.这个国家正陷入暴力和法制崩溃的深渊。
Shefoundherselfon theedgeofan abyss.她发现自己岌岌可危。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
  • a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
  • adversity
  • atyourworstidiom
  • Augean
  • bad hair day
  • emergence
  • epidemic
  • genie
  • half nelson
  • hardness
  • have a bumpy rideidiom
  • quicksand
  • rabbit hole
  • reversal
  • rigour
  • rollercoaster
  • strait
  • the Augean Stablesidiom
  • the hard wayidiom
  • vortex
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(Definition ofabyssfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofabyss

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Our line is too short to fathom such immense abysses.
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The ridge on which we stood ran right against it; it was the only means of approach, while ghastly abysses fell on either side.
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There are more than 200 caves and underground abysses.
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Infernal abysses do not frighten us, nor the blazes of thunder.
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How is the earth fixed above theabyss: independently, or resting on the heavenly spheres beneath it?
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Horrible anguish and abysses opened up for me.
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Same as always - theabyssyawning its head off at your feet, while you struggle with the monster that is trying to push you in.
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The 'abyss' that allegedly separated this faction from the traditional right was, in fact, easily reconcilable, as the developments in the wake of the election show.
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The bottomless space or theabyssin which perceptible matter is contained would suggest to us the notion of this phenomenon, resulting in the unlimited synonymity of space and infinity.
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She was sliding into theabyss.
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As palliative care physicians we are often in the position of staring, along with our patients, into the mysteriousabyssof life's most unanswerable and unknowable existential questions.
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We all know where it leads: to theabyssand to horror.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Last weekend we faced anabyssso deep we could see no bottom.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
There is no escape from that except into theabyssof a full statutory policy.
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Hansard archive
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I said at that time that it seemed to me that we were descending into anabyss.
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