Abyss



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 深渊, 深坑
• ［英］ n. 深渊, 深坑 ( bottomless gulf; chasm)
• ［记］ a+byss ( 深) -> 不知多深 -> 深渊

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle English abissus, from Late Latin abyssus, from Greek abyssos, from abyssos, adjective, bottomless, from a- + byssos depth; perhaps akin to Greek bathys deep
• Date: 14th century
• 1. the bottomless gulf, pit, or chaos of the old cosmogonies
• 2.
  • a. an immeasurably deep gulf or great space
  • b. intellectual or moral depths

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