stygian

英[\'stɪdʒɪən]

美[ˈstɪdʒiən]

基本释义

A power failure at 11:03 P . M. plunged the city into Stygian blackness.

晚上十一时三分停电, 使全市陷入阴森森的黑暗中.

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Inman: are every that keeps me from sliding into whatever Stygian place.

英曼: 你一直在帮助我不让我滑进某些黑暗的地方.

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Adjective

1. hellish;
"Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn"- Milton
2. dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades;
"in the depths of an Acheronian forest"
"upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth