abyss

• n. 深渊；深邃，无底洞，地狱

前缀a-, 没有。词根byss, 底，词源同base, 底，低下。

1. a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)

abyss

abyss: [16] English borrowed abyss from late Latin abyssus, which in turn derived from Greek ábussos. This was an adjective meaning ‘bottomless’, from a- ‘not’ and bussós ‘bottom’, a dialectal variant of buthós (which is related to bathys ‘deep’, the source of English bathyscape). In Greek the adjective was used in the phrase ábussos limnē ‘bottomless lake’, but only the adjective was borrowed into Latin, bringing with it the meaning of the noun as well.

In medieval times, a variant form arose in Latin – abysmus. It incorporated the Greek suffix -ismós (English -ism). It is the source of French abîme, and was borrowed into English in the 13th century as abysm (whence the 19th-century derivative abysmal). It began to be ousted by abyss in the 16th century, however, and now has a distinctly archaic air.

abyss (n.)

late 14c., earlier abime (c. 1300, from a form in Old French), from Late Latin abyssus "bottomless pit," from Greek abyssos (limne) "bottomless (pool)," from a- "without" (see a- (2)) + byssos "bottom," possibly related to bathos "depth."

Franz Kafka once said: Writing is utter solitude ( ' , 独处 ), the descent into the cold abyss ( ' , 深渊 ) of oneself.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

My mother's criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and when you make the introspective ( ' , 内省的 ) descent that writing requires you are not always pleased by what you find.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Franz Kafka once said: "Writing is utter solitude , the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

My mother's criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and when you make the introspective descent that writing requires you are not always pleased by what you find.

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

(figurative)The country is stepping back from the edge of an abyss.

该国临渊而退。

牛津词典

Ahead of them was a gaping abyss.

他们前面是一个巨大的深渊。

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(figurative)an abyss of ignorance/despair/loneliness

无知到极点；彻底绝望；无尽的孤寂

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How big is the abyss between what you think you are and what you actually are?

你对自己的认识和真实的你之间差别到底有多大？

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He felt he was on the edge of an abyss; one false move and he was done for...

他觉得如临深渊，一步不慎便会永劫不复。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The country was on the brink of an abyss.

国家岌岌可危。

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You stare blindly into the abyss!

你盲目的注视着深渊!

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He is plunging into an abyss of despair.

他陷入了绝望的深渊.

《简明英汉词典》

Vietnam war dragged USA into an endless abyss.

越南战争的泥潭,使美国掉进了一个无底洞.

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From to realistic condition detesting and rejecting, then pursue mind abyss strange pleasure.

从对现实状态的厌弃, 进而追求心灵深渊的奇诡乐趣.

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The immediate contingency overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.

当务之急追上了他, 把他从理论深渊的边缘拉了回来.

英汉文学 - 盖茨比

It was tragic that the maintainer fell into an abyss when a rope broke.

绳索断了,于是登山者坠入深谷,这真是悲惨.

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The world's manifest As it is: a sun Immobile, in the abyss.

这世界就是这样真实地显现: 深渊中,一个静止的太阳.

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For others it may feel as if they are an abyss.

对另一些人而言,这好像是朝深渊里看.

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For others it may feel as if they are staring into an abyss.

对另一些人而言,这好像朝深渊里看.

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How the evil force did not change little, and pushed its nation into abyss again.

然而日本罪恶的势力并未动容丝毫, 将整个国家再次推入灾难的渊薮.

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While entrusting the flame to a celestial abyss.

信托火焰去天国的深渊时.

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The people are plunged into an abyss of misery.

涂炭生灵.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Manifestation : A Paradox where a creature from the Abyss manifests within caster's vicinity.

显灵: 矛盾之一,来自深渊的生物将会出现在施法者附近.

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It was this demon that almost cast Europe into an unfathomable abyss of anguish and suffering.

这个恶魔几乎把整个欧洲送进了一个苦难的无底深渊.

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In the abyss of his mind he apprehends the world's minuteness.

在他的心灵深处,他体会到世界的渺小.

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The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.

日头和天空,都因这烟昏暗了.

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Without him, Angleton became a ship without anchor, drifting slowly toward the abyss.

失去了他, 安格尔顿成了无锚之船, 慢慢地向着旋涡漂去.

辞典例句

One slip on this mountain and you will fall into the abyss.

在这座山上一失足便会跌入万丈深渊.

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This is an abyss, fall into the person that go only, just know its depth.

这是一个深渊, 只有掉进去的人, 才知道它的深度.

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Cities are the abyss of the human species.

城市是人类的深渊.

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That's it! I can take no more of this association. the Abyss with you all!

够了! 我无法再忍受这该死的队伍了! 你们全都下地狱吧!

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Ahead of them was a gaping abyss.

他们面前是一个巨大的深渊。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

In the night all he could see was a bottomless abyss.

整个晚上,他看到的是一个无底的深渊.

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