underworld怎么读
音标：英 ['ʌndəwɜːld]
美['ʌndɚ'wɝld]
underworld是什么意思
- n. 黑社会；地狱；下层社会；尘世
英文词源
- 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.
underworld的双语例句
- 1. Some claim that she still has connections to the criminal underworld.
- 有人称她仍与黑社会犯罪势力有来往。
来自柯林斯例句
- 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.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. The central character of the novel is a sort of underworld figure.
- 这部小说的中心角色是个黑社会人物.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. Gino clawed his way out of underworld obscurity to become a millionaire hotelier.
- 吉诺从底层社会的无名小卒一步步奋斗成为拥有百万家财的酒店大亨。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. He snuck into the underworld, which was a forbidden place to go.
- 他溜入阴间禁地.
来自常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年2月号
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