underworld
underworld 英 [ˈʌndəwɜ:ld] 美 [ˈʌndərwɜrld]
n. 黑社会；地狱；下层社会；尘世
名词复数:underworlds
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- n. 黑社会；地狱；下层社会；尘世
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1. It is a mob compacted of violent elements of the underworld.
那是一群由黑社会的凶悍分子组成的暴民。
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2. It's a river that, I think, all classical writers, and a lot of Renaissance writers, are very comfortable placing in the underworld.
我认为对于所有的经典作家，和很多文艺复兴时期的作家，忘川在地狱中都是一个舒适的所在。
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3. As my experience showed, the underworld these women inhabit is complex and layered, and rescuing them involves more than just opening a door.
如我的经验所表明，这些女人们所居的下层社会结构复杂，等级森严，解救她们并不只是打开一扇门这样简单。
- underworld (n.) c. 1600, "the lower world, Hades, place of departed souls," also "the earth, the world below the skies," as distinguished from heaven. Similar formation in German unterwelt, Dutch onderwereld, Danish underverden. Meaning "lower level of society" is first recorded 1890; "criminals and organized crime collectively" is attested from 1900.
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