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
权威例句
1. The country was on the brink of an abyss.
国家岌岌可危。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Ahead of them was a gaping abyss.
他们面前是一个巨大的深渊。
来自《权威词典》
3. The people are plunged into an abyss of misery.
