English Dictionary

bottomless pit

名詞

比喩的用法

A pit with no visible bottom (apparently-infinite depth). / (biblical) Hell. / (figuratively) An endless resource or supply.

日本語の意味

底が見えず、無限に深い穴 / 聖書的文脈での地獄 / 比喩的に、尽きることのない資源や供給

At midnight we stood at the edge of the bottomless pit, feeling the cold draft that came from its depths.

真夜中、私たちは底の見えない深い穴の縁に立ち、その深みから立ち上る冷たい風を感じた。

意味（1）

A pit with no visible bottom (apparently-infinite depth).

意味（2）

(biblical) Hell.

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

意味（3）

(figuratively) An endless resource or supply.

Lipsius was replaced at Leyden by Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), the French Protestant scholar who was known to contemporaries as the bottomless pit of erudition.

意味（4）

(figuratively) A person with an apparently boundless appetite; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources.

In other words, we will continue throwing good money after bad, trying to feed a bottomless pit's insatiable appetite for taxpayer dollars.

bottomless pits （ plural ）