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单词 netherworld
释义 netherworld|ˈnɛðəwɜːld|
[f. nether a. 6 + world n.]
= underworld 4.
1930Sat. Evening Post 26 July 145/1 Who could possibly deny his skill in the affairs of the netherworld?1955P. Heron Changing Forms of Art 106 It seems in itself a symbol of the artist, and particularly of his work in recent years: for it is a sort of ambassador of the Dark, of the vast netherworld which psychologists call the Unconscious.1973Daily Tel. 5 Apr. 15/2 When to admit a new word is always a problem, but President Nixon has made it with ‘netherworld’ (‘the netherworld of deceit, subversion and espionage’).1975Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 679/1 Occasionally he even descended from Baltimore into this netherworld of benighted yokels and hillbillies.
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