1SCCthe criminals in a particular place and the criminal activities they are involved in 〔某地的〕黑道,黑社会;犯罪活动
New York’s criminal underworld
纽约的黑社会
2.the Underworldthe place where the spirits of the dead are believed to live, for example in ancientGreekstories 〔古希腊神话等中的〕地府,阴间
Examples from the Corpus
underworld• He's accused of having connections with Japan's criminal underworld.• Our reportersuncovered a generation who have been sucked into a dark underworld of solventabuse and hard drugs.• All of us have our underworld and nether world creatures with whom we carry on some innerconversation.• Virgil too is the only poet who gives clearly the geography of the underworld.• They were seen as the earthlylinks to the gods of the underworld.• Beneath its coilsflows the water of the underworld.• A hot new pachinko machine from a backstreetmaker in Osaka has taken the underworld by storm.• He was on his way to the underworld with Pirithous.• Owen has been active in the Los Vegas underworld for years.• The money used to bribe Cronje was raised by Kishan Kumar, a failed Bollywood actor with underworld links, detectivesallege.