"bottomless gulf, greatest depths," now chiefly poetic, c. 1300, from Old French abisme (Modern French abîme), from Vulgar Latin *abyssimus (source of Spanish and Portuguese abismo), which represents either a superlative of Latin abyssus or a formation on analogy of Greek-derived words in -ismus; see abyss.
双语例句
1. Unknow: What seest you else in the dark backward and abysm of time?
这句话的中文翻译: 你在过去时光的幽暗的深渊里,还看不看得见其余的影子?
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英英释意
1. a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
