underworld是什麽意思

underworld

英 ['ʌndəwɜːld] 美 ['ʌndɚ'wɝld]

n. 黑社會；地獄；下層社會；塵世

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.

雙語例句

1. Some claim that she still has connections to the criminal underworld.: 有人稱她仍與黑社會犯罪勢力有來往。

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.

3. The central character of the novel is a sort of underworld figure.: 這部小說的中心角色是個黑社會人物.

4. Gino clawed his way out of underworld obscurity to become a millionaire hotelier.: 吉諾從底層社會的無名小卒一步步奮鬥成為擁有百萬家財的酒店大亨。

5. He snuck into the underworld, which was a forbidden place to go.: 他溜入陰間禁地.

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