单词 | netherworld |
释义 | neth·er·world also nether world ![]() n. 1. The world of the dead. 2. A situtation in which one's status is uncertain, marginal, or undefined: “He was caught in the netherworld between the lowest levels of minor league baseball and the highest level of amateur play” (Tim Wakefield with Tony Massarotti). “She grew up in a kind of a class netherworld, not quite her father's daughter, not quite a servant” (Nina Sovich). 3. The part of society engaged in crime and vice: “Once they found themselves on the streets, they fell very quickly into the criminal netherworld” (Anne Applebaum). neth′er·worldly adj. |
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