单词 | a/the pit of something |
释义 | a/the pit of somethinga/the pit of something literarySITUATION a situation which makes you feel very bad 某事糟糕的状态 Just thinking about the future plunged her into a pit of despair. 一想到将来,她就陷入了极其绝望的境地。 Examples from the Corpus a/the pit of something• Again the howl, as if one of Satan's demons was rising from the pit of Hell.• And in a pit of mud, what bubbles?• He was developing a peculiar feeling in the pit of his stomach; a feeling beyond sickness, beyond shock.• When that first cup of coffee was finished, a ball of fear nestled in the pit of my stomach.• The only real life, curiously enough, was underground, in the pit of hell itself.• So it is with the young prospects we throw into the pits of the courtroom.• This person accepted that life was a pit of evil, and they were fine about it. → a/the pit of something at pit1(4) |
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