cataclysm

cataclysm是一個英語單詞，意思是（突然降臨的）大災難，大洪水；地震；(社會政治的)大變動。

基本介紹

• 中文名：（突然降臨的）大災難
• 外文名：cataclysm
• 英式音標：ˈkætəklɪzəm
• 美式音標：ˈkætəˌklɪzəm
• 詞性：名詞

英英釋義

Noun:

1. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
   
2. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;
   "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"
   "the earthquake was a disaster"
   

雙語例句

用作名詞 (n.)

1. The cataclysm flooded the entire valley.
   洪水淹沒了整個山谷。
   
2. A cataclysm caused by the dam breaking.
   一場因水壩破裂所造成的大洪水。
   
3. No cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
   沒有任何激變曾使整個世界變成荒蕪。
   
4. World War II was a cataclysm for all of Europe.
   第二次世界大戰對整個歐洲是一大劇變。
   
5. The Great Depression was an economic cataclysm on a scale hard to imagine.
   大蕭條是一場規模難以想像的經濟災難。
   
6. The floods were a cataclysm from which the local people never recovered.
   經歷了這場特大洪水，當地人民元氣大傷，很難恢復。
   
7. It's a cataclysm for all mankind.
   這是對全人類的一場大災難。
   
8. In an age of potential nuclear cataclysm,in an age of instant communication amidst ideological conflict,our most urgent task is to overcome these apparently iron law of history.
   在一個潛伏著災難的時代，在一個存在著意識形態衝突但能迅速進行交流的時代，我們最迫切的任務是去打破表面上看來不可抗拒的歷史規律。