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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++bot·tom·less /ˈbɒtəmləs $ ˈbɑː-/ adjective  1 DEEPa bottomless hole, sea etc is one that is extremely deep 无底的,深不可测的,极深的 There was a rope dangling down into a dark bottomless hole. 一根绳子悬垂到一个深不见底的黑洞。2 CONTINUOUSseeming to have no end or limit 无尽头的,无极限的 the bottomless well of information available through the Internet 因特网上无限的信息源泉 The government does not have a bottomless pit (=a supply with no limits) of money to spend on public services. 政府并没有取之不尽的钱可以花在公共事业上。
Examples from the Corpus
bottomlessIn some cases the ravine could well be shown as virtually bottomless.In the dream, I was falling and falling in a bottomless abyss.She had produced a cake from her bottomless bottom drawer, and two gallon jugs of tea with Styrofoam cups.And we know the usual fate of such ephemera: consignment to the bottomless circular file below the desk.The vivisystems I examine in this book are nearly bottomless complications, vast in range, and gigantic in nuance.the bottomless depths of the oceanThere was a seemingly bottomless Paris real-estate crisis.To the child the hole seemed like a bottomless pit.You both are doomed to the bottomless pits of hell.Money couldn't buy you love but maybe the Beatles' bottomless pockets could buy the world a new order.a bottomless pitBut somebody ought to tell the filmmakers, who are churning out movies as if demand were a bottomless pit.Her sleep was black and absolute, as if she had been dropped into a bottomless pit.Thus, pump-priming has turned into a bottomless pit for the Treasury, in spite of the reinvestment of large receipts from land sales.It is because pleasure-seeking is a bottomless pit, never satisfied.The U.S. is not a bottomless pit of aid money.
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Corpus is one sea that etc bottomless a hole,


bottomless
bottomless /ˈbɒtəmləs $ ˈbɑː-/ adjective
1. a bottomless hole, sea etc is one that is extremely deep:
    There was a rope dangling down into a dark bottomless hole.
2. seeming to have no end or limit:
    the bottomless well of information available through the Internet
    The government does not have a bottomless pit (=a supply with no limits) of money to spend on public services.


bot·tom·lessBrE /ˈbɒtəmləs/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbɑːtəmləs/ 🔊 adjective (formal) very deep; seeming to have no bottom or limit 很深的;深不可测的;深不见底的a bottomless ˈpit (of sth)a thing or situation which seems to have no limits or seems never to end 无限度事物;无休止的状况;无底洞There isn't a bottomless pit of money for public spending. 公共开支并非用之不尽的。🔊🔊the bottomless pit of his sorrow他无尽的悲哀