| 词汇 | bottomless-pit |
| 释义 | bottomless pit noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˌbɒt.əm.ləs ˈpɪt/ us /ˌbɑː.t̬əm.ləs ˈpɪt/ something that seems to have no limits, especially in how much money needs to be spent on it: We'll be pouring money into a bottomless pit if we try to keep that factory open.如果继续让那个工厂运转下去，我们无异于把钱投入无底洞。 I seemed to have inside me a bottomless pit of grief. Humans need to stop thinking of nature as a bottomless pit that can absorb all the waste that we can possibly throw into it. We do not have a bottomless pit of funds. He launched a scathing attack on the organization, branding it a "bottomless pit" for taxpayers' money. These kinds of projects can turn into bottomless pits, devouring budgets. Her ideas seem to come from a bottomless pit of brilliance. Costing too much capital intensive cheap cheap at half the priceidiom cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom cost someone a pretty pennyidiom cost someone dearidiom costliness daylight robbery dear dearness exorbitant gouge pretty price fixing price someone out price yourself out of the marketidiom prohibitive prohibitively prohibitory sight You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Unlimited Examples of bottomless pitbottomless pit Brothers were locked in a bottomlesspit of death. Putting money into a bottomlesspit at will without accompanying measures can be dangerous. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English This is very important because many people, when they write, feel that their letters disappear into some bottomlesspit and nobody ever finds them again. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They know that there is not a bottomlesspit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I appreciate how much more it would cost if those over 65 were included—there is no bottomlesspit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would, therefore, not be resented nearly so much as taxes which seem to disappear into a bottomlesspit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall never have a bottomlesspit upon which to draw. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But many of us feel that this is pouring money into a bottomlesspit and that it will produce no good results. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have poured money and arms into that country—into a bottomlesspit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is not a bottomlesspit from which we can draw resources to feed the nations of the world for ever and ever. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What worries me is that there is not a bottomlesspit of cash. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, it is a case not so much of painting the lily as of deepening the bottomlesspit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all know that the bottomlesspit is not there and never has been. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I emphasise the point that the prawn fishery is not a bottomlesspit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They speak as if the market is a mysterious, bottomlesspit into which one's hand is dipped and the necessary funds for investment are produced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of bottomless pit These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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