underworld

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underworld 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 下层社会, 地狱, 下流社会

英文释义

n. the criminal class

underworld 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 underworld 在自然语境里怎么用：

But it is also – like The Snakehead -- a journey into an urban underworld.

—— 'London Falling': A teenage imposter, an aging gangster and a body in the Thames

Most prior visits had morphed into extended trips into a terrifying medical underworld—to a purgatory known as emergency-department boarding.

—— A ‘Barbaric’ Problem in American Hospitals Is Only Getting Bigger

She is taken into the underworld, changed by the experience, and eventually returns with a different kind of authority.

—— Demon Lover Archetype: When Intensity Masquerades as Love

But slowly, like a miniature camera obscura image being inverted, the inner reality of this otherworld, this underworld, is revealed, and then we begin to see ourselves in it.

—— A Linguistic and Philosophical Tapestry: Suchitra Ramachandran on Jeyamohan’s The Abyss

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