英 [əˈbɪs] 美 [əˈbɪs]
n. 危险（可怕）的局面，绝境；深渊，深不可测的地方；（人与人之间的）巨大差异，鸿沟；（地狱中的）无底深渊
复数abysses
abyss /əˈbɪs/ TEM8
可数名词 An abyss is a very deep hole in the ground. 深渊
The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss.
因融化的雪水而高涨的急流泻入一个巨大的深渊之中。
可数名词 If someone is on the edge or brink of an abyss, they are about to enter into a very frightening or threatening situation. 深渊 (指危险处境)
...a warning that the Middle East was on the brink of an abyss.
…一则有关中东已经濒临深渊的警告。
a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
同义词： abysm
(创世之前的)混沌，洪荒
深海
深渊
海渊
海沟
2009年06月22日神秘的深渊(Abyss)杀神的祝愿(25级)：飞行状况时气力增长10、准确增长10、飞行速度增长20严谨的性格认为荏弱的光之神是大毁灭的首要原因。
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龙之谷副本掉落Abyss（深渊难度）：
abyssal 深渊的，深海的；深不可测的
The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss.
因融化的雪水而高涨的急流泻入一个巨大的深渊之中。
She saw him running to a dangerous abyss on the side.
她看见他跑向边上一个危险的深渊。
The country is stepping back from the edge of an abyss.
该国临渊而退。
"How do you make sure you are designing a system where you are going to constrain risk taking, you can prevent crises from spreading,and -- if a major institution managed itself to the edge of the abyss -- that we are able to put them out of their misery."
VOA : special.2010.04.16
All of this monistic philosophy, I think, is implicit in the image of divinity's impregnation of the vast abyss.
这所有的一元论观点，我认为，都可从神灵孕育洪荒这一意象中看出来。
弥尔顿课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Whether Gadamer means that when he speaks of gap or whether he simply means an abyss or a distance to be crossed I couldn't say.
当葛达玛说到间隙时是那个意思,还是仅仅认为它是需要跨越的一个深渊或者一段距离,我不能确定。
文学理论导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
He sliced through the treacherous Golden Eagle and Abyss sections that had doomed many others in a driving blizzard.
VOA : standard.2010.02.09
And I believe we pulled the economy back from the abyss." To combat a crippling credit freeze, central banks slashed interest rates and pumped cash into credit markets.
VOA : standard.2010.04.21
This is a question Greece is facing as its people stare into the abyss.
FORBES: Will Western Civilization Rediscover The Moral Foundations Of Sound Money?
One speeds while the other preens about caution, but the bus veers relentlessly towards an abyss.
FORBES: Cut Spending By Returning To Founding Principles Of Federalism
It's as if someone keeps yelling sadly into an abyss, while the band plays on.