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单词 abysm
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Definition of abysm in English:

abysm

noun əˈbɪz(ə)məˈbɪzəm
literary
  • An abyss.

    〈诗/文〉深渊

    the abysm from which nightmares crawl

    噩梦连连的深渊。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For its self-referential abysms are only made darker by the thought that Rosemary Squires didn't pour her heart into this song: Irving Berlin did.
    • ‘What she offered,’ notes the author, ‘in her most sensual, primitive, uncivilized and, from the standpoint of normal aesthetics, distasteful acts slipped over the brink - and she could take you with her - into the abysms of the sacred.’
    • Crystal reached her shaking hand and took it as if it was her last salvation before she falls in the abysm.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French abisme, medieval Latin abysmus, alteration of late Latin abyssus 'bottomless pit', the ending being assimilated to the Greek ending -ismos.

Rhymes

arrivisme, chrism, chrisom, ism, prism, schism

Definition of abysm in US English:

abysm

nounəˈbizəməˈbɪzəm
literary
  • the abysm from which nightmares crawl

    噩梦连连的深渊。

    a literary or poetic term for abyss
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For its self-referential abysms are only made darker by the thought that Rosemary Squires didn't pour her heart into this song: Irving Berlin did.
    • Crystal reached her shaking hand and took it as if it was her last salvation before she falls in the abysm.
    • ‘What she offered,’ notes the author, ‘in her most sensual, primitive, uncivilized and, from the standpoint of normal aesthetics, distasteful acts slipped over the brink - and she could take you with her - into the abysms of the sacred.’

Origin

Middle English: from Old French abisme, medieval Latin abysmus, alteration of late Latin abyssus ‘bottomless pit’, the ending being assimilated to the Greek ending -ismos.

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