bottomless pit

短语

无底洞

词形变化

bottomless pits 复数 bottomless pits

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.

    无底洞

  2. 2.

    Hell.

    宗教

    1769, The Bible, King James Version, Oxford Standard Text, Revelation, 9:11, And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

  3. 3.

    An endless resource or supply.

    比喻
  4. 4.

    A person with an apparently boundless appetite; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources.

    比喻

    2006: The Club For Growth: Bottomless Pit (blog entry), Phillip Rodokanakis In other words, we will continue throwing good money after bad, trying to feed a bottomless pit's insatiable appetite for taxpayer dollars.

  5. 5.

    An in-game hazard made up of a deep hole or void with no visible bottom, where falling in typically causes the player’s character to instantly lose a life.

    游戏

词源

From Revelation 9:1–12.

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