underworld
英 ['?nd?w??ld]
美 ['?nd?'w?ld]
- n. 黑社會(huì)；地獄；下層社會(huì)；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(huì)犯罪勢力有來往。
來自柯林斯例句
- 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.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. The central character of the novel is a sort of underworld figure.
- 這部小說的中心角色是個(gè)黑社會(huì)人物.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Gino clawed his way out of underworld obscurity to become a millionaire hotelier.
- 吉諾從底層社會(huì)的無名小卒一步步奮斗成為擁有百萬家財(cái)?shù)木频甏蠛唷?/dd>
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. He snuck into the underworld, which was a forbidden place to go.
- 他溜入陰間禁地.
來自常春藤生活英語雜志-2006年2月號(hào)