英语词汇bottomless pit的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	bottomless pit
词源	bottomless pit. The expression is from the book of Job in the Coverdale translation of the Bible (1545): “So shall He keep thee from the bottomless pit that is beneath.” Hell is also called the bottomless pit in Revelation 20:1. The Angel of the Bottom- less Pit is the devil. British politician William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806) was jokingly called Bottomless Pitt because he was so thin.
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