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13388.Underworld 英 ʌndəwɜːld]美 ʌndɚ'Wɝld 释义 N 黑社会;地狱;下层社会;尘世 例句

正面 13388.underworld
英 ['ʌndəwɜːld]美 ['ʌndɚ'wɝld]

背面
释义:
n. 黑社会;地狱;下层社会;尘世
例句:
1. Some claim that she still has connections to the criminal underworld.有人称她仍与黑社会犯罪势力有来往。

1. perhaps a metathesis of film (n.) "gauzy covering" + -y / -sy.2. flim- (谐音“覆泥膜”----覆盖泥土的薄膜)。

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."

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