abyss
意味
- 底知れぬほど深いもの,奈落
例文
One step further, and you will fall into an abyss.
一歩誤るとせんじんの谷だ。
She was in an abyss of despair.
彼女は絶望のどん底にあった。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English abissus, from Late Latin abyssus (“a bottomless gulf”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos, “bottomless”, from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βυσσός (bussós, “deep place”)), from βυθός (buthós, “deep place”). Displaced native Old English neowolnes.