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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - So much better for all the rumors about a coming cataclysm to be related to a mere dirty snowball, a common comet!
所以最好所有关于即将到来的大灾难的谣言都与一个小小的脏雪球，一个普通的彗星有关！ - 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。 - Some people are swept into religious faith by a cataclysm in their life.
有些人是经历了生活中的大变故才笃信宗教的。 - 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。 - You know we are on the brink of another cataclysm.
你就知道我们正濒临另一次大动乱。 - 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。