underworld / ˈʌn dərˌwɜrld /

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underworld 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the criminal element of human society.
  2. the imagined abode of departed souls or spirits; Hades.
  3. a region below the surface, as of the earth or a body of water.
  4. the opposite side of the earth; the antipodes.
  5. Archaic. the earth.

underworld 近义词

n. 名词 noun

criminal activity, element

更多underworld例句

  1. After some rough-and-tumble adventuring in the underworld, you’ll feel like new.
  2. For a previous book, Faleiro immersed herself in the underworld of Mumbai’s secret dance bars.
  3. One is the living world, and the other is an underworld filled with death, and Marianne walks through both simultaneously.
  4. One will examine how academics get their information and research about violence and the criminal underworld.
  5. Hundreds of underworld figures from across the former Soviet empire attended the funeral, including four crime bosses from Azerbaijan.
  6. We all knew there were mobsters in the record industry, but this is some very serious underworld stuff.
  7. Rick flees the underworld, in this case the prison, and returns to the world as a hero.
  8. For most heroes, the second cycle of the monomyth involves a physical journey into the underworld.
  9. In actuality, an encounter with a goddess of the underworld is another step in the second cycle of the monomyth.
  10. Gotham may mature into a thrilling mystery that explores corrupt cops and the seedy underworld.
  11. In his efforts to clear himself, the young cop had taken half a dozen lead slugs from underworld guns into his body.
  12. It was then that Black Hood got one of those sudden inspirations which had made him the underworld's most capable adversary.
  13. Vergil tells us that a special punishment in the underworld awaited the patron who defrauded a client.
  14. In the Underworld the devil serpent Apep was spat upon to curse it, as was also its waxen image which the priests fashioned.
  15. It could not be Underworld jargon; it was too direct and at the same time too picturesque.