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.
剩下绝大部分的人在底层社会的临时工作,一次又一次的失业以及黑市中艰难度日。
He uses his imagination to describe his mother's feelings as a banker's wife after years cloistered in a netherworld.
他展开想象的翅膀，描绘了他母亲经历了数年下层社会的隐匿生活，再成为一个银行家妻子的感受。
They don't merely shove everything mundane – office buildings and the like – into the netherworld beyond Paris's ring road.
他们不只是把所有平凡的事物，比如政府大楼之类，铲到巴黎环路之外的荒芜之中。
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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.