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Nether means lower, under, the part that sits down below. Almost nobody uses it in ordinary talk except as a joke or in stories. The phrase people still know is the nether regions: a polite, slightly silly way to talk about the body parts between the legs, or, in older writing, a dark world far underneath. In games, a lot of young people meet the word in the Nether — a hot, dangerous lower world. English once used nether the way we now use lower; today it feels and a bit funny. You would not say the nether shelf in a shop.
下方的、底下的（書面、常帶幽默。「the nether regions」委婉指下體；遊戲裡的 the Nether 是底下的異界）
組成From Old English niþera, “lower, under,” from a Germanic word for “down,” ultimately from an old Indo-European root meaning “in, down.” Dutch neder and German nieder are cousins, not English copies.
同家族的字
- Netherlandsnether + lands: the “low lands”
- nethermostnether + -most: the lowest of all
- beneathshares the old neath/nether piece meaning “down”
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Nethername
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A dangerous, hell-like underworld dimension in the game Minecraft, accessed via an obsidian portal, filled with lava, unique mobs, and resources.
netheradj詞源 1/nɛð.ə/
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Lower; under.
- The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
- And yet another marvel, the nether side of the canopy over the high seats was encrusted with lapis lazuli, and in that feigned dome of heaven burned the twelve signs of the zodiac, every star a diamond that shone with its own light.
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Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
- the nether regions
- When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,
netheradv詞源 1/nɛð.ə/
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Down; downward.
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Low; low down.
netherverb詞源 2/nɛð.ə/
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dialectalTo bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
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dialectalTo constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
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dialectalTo pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
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dialectalTo shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
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dialectalTo depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
nethernoun詞源 2/nɛð.ə/
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dialectalOppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
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businessminingA trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。