| 单词 | bottomless |
| 释义 | bottomless (bɒtəmləs ) 1. adjective If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out. Mum does not have a bottomless purse. Synonyms: unlimited, endless, infinite, limitless 2. adjective If you describe something as bottomless, you mean that it is so deep that it seems to have no bottom. His eyes were like bottomless brown pools. Synonyms: deep, profound, yawning, boundless 3. a bottomless pit phrase If you describe something as a bottomless pit, you mean that it seems as if you can take things from it and it will never be empty or put things in it and it will never be full. A gold mine is not a bottomless pit, the gold runs out. The problem is we don't have a bottomless pit of resources. He's a bottomless pit as far as food is concerned. Collocations: bottomless pockets If you have two months to spare and bottomless pockets, you could follow the entire series, but who has? Times, Sunday Times Proper can't-wait-to-get-back-toschool-and-tell-everyone adventures don't require long-haul flights or bottomless pockets. Times, Sunday Times They could produce a chilling effect on press freedom, empowering only the company with bottomless pockets and the rich individual with a limitless appetite for complaints. Times, Sunday Times And, with it, the bottomless well of goodwill that the temporary custodians of the club thought would always sustain them. The Sun (2006) But Clea resisted, unleashing a seemingly bottomless well of fight-or-flight chemicals into her bloodstream. T2©: RISING STORM (1991) Neither it nor the Government have a bottomless well of money. The Sun (2016) He brought laughter, fun and a seemingly bottomless reserve of hyperactivity. Times, Sunday Times It was all too much for his father who, exasperated and shamed by his son's seemingly bottomless psychological spiral, tried in 1879 to have him committed to an asylum. Times, Sunday Times They all fed on the seemingly bottomless pot of cash offered by the banks. Times, Sunday Times The entry room stands close to 60 feet high, and drops off to a seemingly bottomless series of tributaries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She climbs up into the mountains, where she gets trapped upon a precipice that overlooks a seemingly bottomless canyon. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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