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underworld

/uhn-der-wurld/US // ˈʌn dərˌwɜrld //UK // (ˈʌndəˌwɜːld) //

冥界,冥府,冥冥之中,冥冥之中自有天意

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Definitions

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

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Examples

  • After some rough-and-tumble adventuring in the underworld, you’ll feel like new.

  • For a previous book, Faleiro immersed herself in the underworld of Mumbai’s secret dance bars.

  • One is the living world, and the other is an underworld filled with death, and Marianne walks through both simultaneously.

  • One will examine how academics get their information and research about violence and the criminal underworld.

  • Hundreds of underworld figures from across the former Soviet empire attended the funeral, including four crime bosses from Azerbaijan.

  • We all knew there were mobsters in the record industry, but this is some very serious underworld stuff.

  • Rick flees the underworld, in this case the prison, and returns to the world as a hero.

  • For most heroes, the second cycle of the monomyth involves a physical journey into the underworld.

  • In actuality, an encounter with a goddess of the underworld is another step in the second cycle of the monomyth.

  • Gotham may mature into a thrilling mystery that explores corrupt cops and the seedy underworld.

  • In his efforts to clear himself, the young cop had taken half a dozen lead slugs from underworld guns into his body.

  • It was then that Black Hood got one of those sudden inspirations which had made him the underworld's most capable adversary.

  • Vergil tells us that a special punishment in the underworld awaited the patron who defrauded a client.

  • In the Underworld the devil serpent Apep was spat upon to curse it, as was also its waxen image which the priests fashioned.

  • It could not be Underworld jargon; it was too direct and at the same time too picturesque.