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单词 underlife
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underlifen.

Etymology: under- prefix1 2b(c).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈunderlife.
A life beneath the surface or on a lower level.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] > hidden tendency or activity > life
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underworld1858
1847 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 32 On looking more closely into Hume's underlife.
1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys xxiii The underlife that never had been spoken—that lay between these three.
1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe vii. §242. 245 What we are driven to is not an under-life resident in the atom but rather a Divine overlife.
1888 Harper's Mag. Apr. 753/2 Paris; and the university, with its wild under-life,—some debts, some follies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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