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doomsday

/doomz-dey/US // ˈdumzˌdeɪ //UK // (ˈduːmzˌdeɪ) //

末日,末日来临,末日降临,末日来临之际

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the day of the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.
    • : any day of judgment or sentence.
    • : nuclear destruction of the world.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : given to or marked by forebodings or predictions of impending calamity; especially concerned with or predicting future universal destruction: the doomsday issue of all-out nuclear war.
    • : capable of causing widespread or total destruction: doomsday weapons.

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Examples

  • This investment is part of what we know keeps people in doomsday cults, Stone said, and can make it harder to walk away.

  • Goldman opposed Metro’s financial plan, saying it added up to another untenable “doomsday” budget that would cause the region economic harm.

  • It’s exceptionally unlikely, but as a subset of all the Giants’ division-winning simulations — only 2,608 in total, out of 50,000 — it’s actually more probable than our final doomsday scenario.

  • Prosecutors are also probing Shincheonji, a quasi-Christian doomsday sect.

  • Elon Musk throws out ship dates for fully autonomous Teslas as often as doomsday cult leaders reschedule the end of the world.

  • After a few hundred years, these voices start to resemble doomsday cultists—the end is often heralded but never delivered.

  • Many doomsday preppers have spent their lives stocking up for an emergency of the type this contagious hemorrhagic fever presents.

  • Men and women “go on bucket list,” some commit suicide, and others go full on doomsday hoarder.

  • On federal spending he warns that the nation is headed for “a doomsday scenario.”

  • But he was fully devoted to EL, and made preparations for the looming doomsday.

  • He reaches Berlin, Sunday, 27th August; finds a world gone all to a kind of doomsday with him there, poor gentleman.

  • Secretary Stanton declared that the delay would be till doomsday if Thomas waited for the latter.

  • This sort of man always has to be helped, otherwise he goes on beginning and leaving off suddenly until Doomsday.

  • You have, perhaps, heard of five orders; but there are only two real orders, and there never can be any more until doomsday.

  • If I wait for some one to come and help me, I may wait until doomsday as this is a side road and little traveled.'