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armageddon

/ahr-muh-ged-n/US // ˌɑr məˈgɛd n //UK // (ˌɑːməˈɡɛdən) //

大决战,世界末日,大战,大战结束

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the place where the final battle will be fought between the forces of good and evil.
    • : the last and completely destructive battle: The arms race can lead to Armageddon.
    • : any great and crucial conflict.

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Examples

  • I knew: Nuclear Armageddon was staring me in the face on a daily basis.

  • For instance, both North Korea and China have recently talked about unleashing Armageddon.

  • With the DR-Congo now Ebola-stricken, fears of an Armageddon are rising.

  • Within months Musharraf had started a war with India in Kashmir and was taking the country to the brink of Armageddon.

  • They lead armies into battle and are in training for the final showdown at Armageddon.

  • For a long time after he had gone to bed Hyacinth lay awake haunted by his father's prophecy of an Armageddon.

  • The letter seemed the first clear note of the trumpet summoning him to his father's Armageddon.

  • They recalled, as so many different things seemed to do, his father's vision of an Armageddon.

  • There still recurred to him memories of his father's vision of an Armageddon and the conception of his own part in it.

  • Such were the numbers and such the carnage that men have compared the conflict to that of the nations at Armageddon.