underworld
英 ['?nd?w??ld]
美['?nd?'w?ld]
- n. 黑社會(huì)；地獄；下層社會(huì)；塵世
TEM4低頻詞暢通詞匯
英文詞源
- underworld (n.)
- c. 1600, "the lower world, Hades, place of departed souls," also "the earth, the world below the skies," as distinguished from heaven. Similar formation in German unterwelt, Dutch onderwereld, Danish underverden. Meaning "lower level of society" is first recorded 1890; "criminals and organized crime collectively" is attested from 1900.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Some claim that she still has connections to the criminal underworld.
- 有人稱她仍與黑社會(huì)犯罪勢(shì)力有來(lái)往。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. She was a shady figure in the Dublin underworld.
- 她是都柏林犯罪圈子中的可疑人物.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 3. The central character of the novel is a sort of underworld figure.
- 這部小說(shuō)的中心角色是個(gè)黑社會(huì)人物.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 4. Gino clawed his way out of underworld obscurity to become a millionaire hotelier.
- 吉諾從底層社會(huì)的無(wú)名小卒一步步奮斗成為擁有百萬(wàn)家財(cái)?shù)木频甏蠛唷?/dd>
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. He snuck into the underworld, which was a forbidden place to go.
- 他溜入陰間禁地.
來(lái)自常春藤生活英語(yǔ)雜志-2006年2月號(hào)