abysmal
abysmal 英 [əˈbɪzməl] 美 [əˈbɪzməl]
adj. 深不可测的；糟透的；极度的
名词复数:abysmals
- If you want to say something is really, really bad — then call it abysmal. If one person shows up to your party, well then that is an abysmal turnout. The 1958 Ford Edsel? An abysmal failure.
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- adj. 深不可测的；糟透的；极度的
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1. "[With] the males, even with one testis, the quality of that sperm was just abysmal, " she says.
“甚至有的雄美洲豹只有一个睾丸，而且它们的精子的质量糟糕透了，”她说。
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2. That would have made a vote for independence almost impossible in a region of low literacy and abysmal infrastructure.
在一个文化程度低和基础设施非常糟糕的地区，为独立而举办的投票几乎是不可能的。
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3. Dionysian consciousness is essentially bisexual, and for Nietzsche it was precisely the lunar aspect of this consciousness, the abysmal depths of the feminine, that was both appealing and frightful.
酒神式的意识本质上是双性的，而这种意识对尼采来说却恰恰是月亮阴柔的，那种极度深邃的阴柔，迷人而可怕。
- abysmal (adj.) 1650s, "pertaining to an abyss," formed in English from abysm + -al (1). Perhaps only a dictionary word before 19c. Weakened sense of "extremely bad" is first recorded 1904, perhaps from abysmal ignorance (suggestive of its "depth"), an expression attested from 1847. Related: Abysmally.
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