cataclysm
英 [ˈkætəklɪzəm]
美 [ˈkætəklɪzəm]
n. (突然降临的)大灾难，大灾变，大动乱
复数：cataclysms
BNC.35007 / COCA.22077
牛津词典
noun
- （突然降临的）大灾难，大灾变，大动乱
a sudden disaster or a violent event that causes change, for example a flood or a war
柯林斯词典
- 大灾难；剧变
Acataclysmis an event that causes great change or harm.
英英释义
noun
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity
- the earthquake was a disaster
- a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
双语例句
- The cataclysm that would bring the world to an end.
将把世界引向末日的大灾难。 - And if the cataclysm affected the Moon, it also affected the Earth& at a time when life was just beginning.
如果这个大灾难影响月球，它同样也影响地球&在这个时候，生命刚刚开始。 - Only a cataclysm such as a flood or earthquake would stop this football match.
只有诸如洪水或地震那样的大灾难才能停止这场足球赛。 - The cataclysm was too much for them! They've all gone mad!
灾难对他们来说太严重了！他们都已经疯了！ - Next we'll outline some of the death knight talent-tree changes we're planning in Cataclysm.
下一步我们将概述一些灾难的死亡骑士天赋树的变化，我们正在规划中。 - Sixty years after the cataclysm that drove humanity underground, it finally emerges to retake the surface.
在人类被驱遣到地底六年之后，终于开始了反攻，重夺地表。 - 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.
在一个潜伏着灾难的时代，在一个存在着意识形态冲突但能迅速进行交流的时代，我们最迫切的任务是去打破表面上看来不可抗拒的历史规律。 - We're hoping to be able to clean up some of this with the Cataclysm overhaul.
我们希望能够在将来的大灾难资料片的大变动中解决一些类似的问题。 - Small beer compared with the cataclysm of a year ago& but enough to temper the holiday cheer.
相较于一年之前的大灾难，如今只是一个小熊市，但是足够缓和人们度假的欢乐心情。 - I wonder whether this limited solution is a proportionate response to such an economic cataclysm.
我提出，对于如此规模的经济灾难而言，他这种有限的解决方案是否是一种适当的反应？