cataclysm 的定义
- any violent upheaval, especially one of a social or political nature.
- Physical Geography. a sudden and violent physical action producing changes in the earth's surface.
- an extensive flood; deluge.
cataclysm 近义词
disaster
更多cataclysm例句
- We were innocent of the global health cataclysm that was about to transpire, one which would force many of us to reassess what we had long taken for granted.
- The pandemic spawned an American existential crisis, a productivity slump, a small-business cataclysm.
- They want to cut the capital gains tax, sure — but its importance pales next to the urgency of stopping the cataclysm that would engulf us all if Democrats were to hold power.
- It’s Round 74 of the Post Pundit 2020 Power Ranking, and barring a meteor strike, extraterrestrial invasion or unexpected constitutional cataclysm, we made it!
- It’s a landscape of cataclysm and of regrowth, where nature shows off its singular ability to recover and revive, year after year.
- In the cataclysm that followed, the survival of republican government indeed was in peril.
- The reader feels the personal cataclysm of four kibbutznik paratroopers as their universe falls from grace.
- That generic description of right-wing economics, however, is too vague to capture specific cataclysm that occurred in 2008.
- And I wanted to know what (besides the obvious cataclysm of 9/11) had turned him into such a radical voice on the subject.
- The poet remains coolly detached: a circumspect observer in the face of cataclysm.
- I see unutterable defeat, the success of the rebellion, a great catastrophe, a moral and physical cataclysm.
- Back had they gone to town, and then came the cataclysm of noon.
- The aftermath of the war is a spiritual cataclysm such as civilized mankind has never before known.
- The legend begins with a deluge myth; a cataclysm ended a period of human existence.
- Nothing short of a seismic cataclysm—an earthquake, in fact—could deter a San Francisco audience after that.