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abyss

/uh-bis/US // əˈbɪs //UK // (əˈbɪs) //

深渊,深处,深海,深潭

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.
    • : anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite: the abyss of time.
    • : the primal chaos before Creation.the infernal regions; hell.a subterranean ocean.

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Examples

  • Such dark matter, a vast abyss, is evidence of a viral world we must come to understand better.

  • Doolittle, for example, is just one of many veteran relievers floating through this offseason abyss.

  • Out of the abyss of the primary came Darrell Issa, who served for nine terms in Congress in the neighboring 49th Congressional District.

  • In this age of advanced gene technology, the true abyss of renunciation from which we speak “I” is only now becoming obvious to us.

  • Big names use their longevity, time-tested popularity, and a fat purse to create a monopoly and call the market shot — and having earned proprietary eponyms, they push low-budget upcoming competitors into the abyss.

  • Hollywood, too, became enraptured by the exotic abyss of Stanleyville.

  • But, Ali warns all that can change quickly if Anbar continues to crumble, “right now, we are looking into the Abyss.”

  • And my beloved Zimbabwe has sunk from a promising beacon into an abyss of greed and dictatorship.

  • But when patients open their jaws, he totters on the abyss and gets no steadying hand from God.

  • And when I made the Abyss, which had a giant wave scene in it, those stopped.

  • He sees no longer the brink of the abyss beside which the path of progress picks its painful way.

  • In the abyss of her heart, too deep at first for recognition, the girl loved him, and had loved him from the very beginning.

  • The path leading to it is over a small ledge of rock, skirted on each side by a yawning abyss.

  • The poor, tearful desire lays a pale hand on reason's lips and gazes wistfully into the mysterious abyss of the Great Silence.

  • She points to her pinions stretched over the abyss of primeval fire, her eyes blinded by its awful glare, and remains silent.

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