释义 |
plumbless, a.|ˈplʌmlɪs| [f. plumb v. + -less.] That cannot be plumbed; fathomless.
1651Ogilby æsop (1665) 209 May..quaff If he had twenty Plumbless Oceans. 1854Dickens Hard T. xv, The moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past. 1946W. de la Mare Traveller 29 Into a plumbless deep of sleep he sank. 1960C. Achebe No Longer at Ease iii. 26 For the first time since they had left Liverpool, the sea became really blue; a plumbless blue set off by the gleaming white tops of countless wavelets. |