underworld
pronunciation
UK [ˈʌndəwɜ:ld]
US [ˈʌndərwɜrld]
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- n.
- 阴间,地狱
- 下流社会
- (地球另一面的)对跖点
- <古>地球
Word Origin
Example
- 1. Many of the trials have featured lurid testimony about sex , corruption and the city 's violent underworld .
- 很多案件的审判中都包含关于色情、腐败和黑社会的耸人听闻的证词。
- 2. Mr obama has quoted a figure of $ 1 trillion lost last year to cybercrime-a bigger underworld than the drugs trade , though such figures are disputed .
- 奥巴马先生引用了有关网络犯罪造成1万亿美元损失的数据----一个比毒品交易更大的黑社会,尽管数据还存在争议。
- 3. The elements of the film -- the killer , the cops , the underworld , the women , the code -- are as familiar as the movies themselves .
- 本片的基本元素:杀手、警察、黑社会、女人、信条等都算是电影里的老生常谈。
- 4. Return and release to the underworld of his childhood coma are the old man 's intelligible goals , for which he prepares with prodigious sessions of sleep .
- 中田的目标非常好理解:回归和进入阴间,他童年时昏迷中去过的地方;为此做准备,他让自己进入异乎寻常的睡眠中。
- 5. But much better that they be encouraged into the open , rather than cooped up in a conspiratorial underworld where their natural divisions are smothered and where the political tool of choice is violence .
- 但是好的一点是他们开始走向公开化,而不是禁闭在充满阴谋的下层社会,在下层社会他们的反抗被抑制,可供选择的政治工具仅有暴力而已。
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