Doomsday
英 ['duːmzdeɪ]
美['dumzde]
- n. 世界末日；最后的审判日
英文词源
- Doomsday (n.)
- Old English domes dæg, from domes, genitive of dom (see doom (n.)) + dæg "day" (see day (n.)).
In medieval England it was expected when the world's age reached 6,000 years from creation, which was thought to have been in 5200 B.C. Bede, c.720, complained of being pestered by rustici asking him how many years till the sixth millennium ended. There is no evidence for a general panic in the year 1000 C.E. Doomsday machine "bomb powerful enough to wipe out human life on earth" is from 1960.
双语例句
- 1. This work will take me till doomsday.
- 这工作要花我一辈子的时间.
来自辞典例句
- 2. We're going to build the Doomsday Machine and conquer the world.
- 我们将建起世界末日时光机来征服整个世界.
来自电影对白
- 3. If they stop , the blimps switch to a doomsday program.
- 使得飞行船上的程式启动那该怎么办?
来自电影对白
- 4. But the financial system would remain a doomsday machine.
- 但金融体系仍将是一台“末日机器”.
来自互联网
- 5. More developers can not cross the land Doomsday " high - voltage wire ? "
- 土地大限不松动开发商能否越过“ 高压线 ”?
来自互联网