N-COUNT An abyss is a very deep hole in the ground. 深渊 [文学性]
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。
N-COUNT 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) [文学性]
...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。
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。
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。
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。
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