英语
词源
abysm + -al
发音
形容词
abysmal（比较级 more abysmal，最高级 most abysmal）
- (现已罕用) 深渊的，与深渊有关的，深不可测的 [首次可考于17世纪中叶][1]
- Template:RQ:Carlyle John Sterling
- The latter [geology] gives one the same sort of bewildering view of the abysmal extent of Time that Astronomy does of Space. [First attested in the early 19th century.][1]
- Template:RQ:Carlyle John Sterling
- (比喻义) 极差的，糟糕不堪的
- 2012年6月9日，Owen Phillips，“Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”，出自 BBC Sport[1]:
- Robben curled an effort against the foot of the post from the edge of the box after being gifted the ball by an abysmal clearance from keeper Stephan Andersen。
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
词语搭配
带名词
- abysmal ignorance
- abysmal record
- abysmal performance
- abysmal poverty
- abysmal conditions
- abysmal quality
- abysmal result
- abysmal service
- abysmal failure
参考资料
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abysmal”, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th版, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, 页11
延伸阅读
- abysmal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- abysmal in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
异序词
- balsamy
葡萄牙语
形容词
abysmal m 或 f（复数 abysmaes）
- 单词 abismal的已弃用拼写
