cataclysm是什么意思

2023-12-05 10:32:17

cataclysm

美[kætəklɪzəm] 英[kætəklɪzəm]

n. 大洪水；地震；(社会政治的)大变动

形容词：cataclysmic

近义词：disaster，eruption，catastrophe，calamity，tragedy，upheaval，debacle，

Noun

a sudden violent change in the earths surface
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;
"the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity" "the earthquake was a disaster"

用作名词(n.)

The cataclysm flooded the entire valley.洪水淹没了整个山谷。
A cataclysm caused by the dam breaking.一场因水坝破裂所造成的大洪水。
No cataclysm has desolated the whole world.没有任何激变曾使整个世界变成荒芜。
World War II was a cataclysm for all of Europe.第二次世界大战对整个欧洲是一大剧变。
The Great Depression was an economic cataclysm on a scale hard to imagine.大萧条是一场规模难以想像的经济灾难。