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
- 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？ - And yet we shouldn't have needed the cataclysm to live life today.
然而，本不该需要灾难来提醒我们过好今天的生活。 - We have a pretty cool solution for Cataclysm if we can make it work.
如果我们能让它运作的话，我们在大灾变中有很酷的解决方案。 - 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 people mysteriously vanished when the world was destroyed by an unknown and ancient cataclysm.
当此处被古老未知的天灾毁灭之后，这个民族也神秘地消失了。 - 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。 - 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。 - A sudden violent change in the earth's surface; a cataclysm.
灾变地表突然而猛烈的变动；灾变。 - 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。