abysm
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继承自中古英语 abime，源自古法语 abisme，源自晚期拉丁语 *abyssimus，abyssus (“无底洞”) 的最高级，源自古希腊语 ἄβυσσος (ábussos)。与法语 abîme 同源。参见 abyss。[1][2]
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abysm (复数 abysms)
- (古旧，诗歌) 地狱，混沌 （1150 - 1350）[2]
- (现主要用于书面) 深渊 （自15世纪晚期）[2]
- 1623, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, III, xiii:
- The abysm of hell.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, “The Grotto”
- Dr. Prunesquallor had circled around Steerpike with his head drawn back so that his cervical vertebrae rested against the near wall of his high collar, and a plumbless abysm yawned between his Adam’s apple and his pearl stud.
- 2015 1月 30, Glyn Maxwell, “‘Ideas of Order,’ by Neil L. Rudenstine [book review; print version: Eternal lines: A guide to Shakespeare's sonnets, International New York Times, 2 February 2015, p. 7]”, 出自 The New York Times[1]:
- [T]he Shakespearean sonnet doesn't lend itself to a sequential narrative, because the rhymed couplet, without its paired feet trembling at that abysm of time, has to settle instead for the sound of sighing resolution, at regular intervals, over and over, before taking a deep breath and returning usually, for better or worse, to the same subject.
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
- 1623, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, III, xiii:
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- ↑ Christine A. Lindberg, editor (2002), “abysm”, The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd版, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4114-0500-4, 页6
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abysm”, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th版, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, 页11
- “abysm”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302