abysm

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos. archaic,poetic
    — Orkney is an archipelago of 70 or so islands lying off the northeast tip of Scotland. “Everywhere in Orkney there is the sense of age, the dark backward and abysm,” the late Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown wrote. “The islands have been inhabited for a very long time, from before the day of the plough.”
  2. An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole. literary
    — The abysm of hell.

词形变化

abysms plural abime alternative abyme alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
abysmal abysmic

词源

From Middle English abime, from Old French abisme from Late Latin *abyssimus, a superlative of abyssus (“bottomless pit”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos). Cognate to French abîme. See also abyss.
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