netherworld

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Most of the rest scrape by in a netherworld of short-term contracts, bouts of unemployment and the black market.
賸下絕大部分的人在底層社會的臨時工作,一次又一次的失業(yè)以及黑市中艱難度日。
He uses his imagination to describe his mother's feelings as a banker's wife after years cloistered in a netherworld.
他展開想象的翅膀，描繪了他母親經(jīng)歷了數(shù)年下層社會的隱匿生活，再成爲一個銀行家妻子的感受。
They don't merely shove everything mundane – office buildings and the like – into the netherworld beyond Paris's ring road.
他們不衹是把所有平凡的事物，比如政府大樓之類，鏟到巴黎環(huán)路之外的荒蕪之中。
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He uses his imagination to describe his mother's feelings as a banker's wife after years cloistered in a netherworld.
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If you refer to a place as a netherworld, you mean that it is dangerous and full of poor people and criminals.