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    Stygian

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++Sty·gi·an /ˈstɪdʒiən/ adjective [usually before noun] literary  DARKunpleasantly dark, and making you feel nervous or afraid 阴暗的；阴森森的 the Stygian gloom 阴森黑暗
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    Stygian• Stygian caverns• No green flash, nothing, and the sky above fading from blue through green to the beginning of Stygian darkness.• She lowered her head and entered the Stygian darkness.• We navigated the Stygian gloom of the corridor arm in arm like a quaint, old-fashioned couple.    Origin Stygian (1500-1600) Latin stygius, from Greek, from Styx river in ancient Greek stories which people cross over when they die
    Sty·gi·an adjectiveChineseSyllable
    afraid Corpus unpleasantly dark, nervous and you making or feel


    Stygian
    Sty‧gi‧an /ˈstɪdʒiən/ adjective [usually before noun] literary
     Date: 1500-1600
     Language: Latin
     Origin: stygius, from Greek, from Styx river in ancient Greek stories which people cross over when they die
    unpleasantly dark, and making you feel nervous or afraid:
        the Stygian gloom


    Sty·gianBrE /ˈstɪdʒiən/ 🔊NAmE /ˈstɪdʒiən/ 🔊 adjective [usually before noun] (literary) very dark, and therefore frightening 黑黢黢的；阴森森的◆Stygian gloom阴森幽暗

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     ORIGIN From the Styx, the river in the underworld which the souls of the dead had to cross in Greek myth. 源自 Styx 一词，即希腊神话中死人的灵魂必须渡过的冥河。