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小词详解 | doom
doom 英 [duːm] 美 [duːm]
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外刊例句
In a more recent example, automated teller machines (ATMs) might have been expected to spell doom for bank tellers by taking over some of their routine tasks.
自动柜员机(ATM)则是一个近期的例子,它被认为会接管银行柜员的一些常规工作,宣判这些职位的终结。
——《经济学人》The sense that Johnson might try to reach a softer deal with Brussels, and his unwillingness to promise key jobs to Gove and other leaders of the campaign to exit the EU, helped doom his candidacy, legislators said.
议员们说,感觉约翰逊可能会试图与布鲁塞尔达成一项更为温和的协议,并且他不愿意向戈夫以及脱欧派其他领导人承诺关键职位,这促使了他的候选人资格落空。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[noun] death, destruction, or some other terrible fate
[名词] 死亡、毁灭或其他可怕的命运
他们的国家正处在内战的边缘。整个国家都笼罩在厄运降临的气氛之中。
Their country is teetering on the brink of civil war. A sense of doom is hanging over the entire country.
这个站不住脚的计划注定要失败。
The feeble plan was doomed to failure .这桩做戏的婚姻从一开始就注定要破裂。
The charade marriage was doomed from the start.
为什么你对我俩之间的鸿沟如此悲观沮丧?
Why are you so full of gloom and doom about the chasm between you and me?
随着高得离谱的股票价格持续上涨,悲观派将不得不改变他们对经济的看法。
With the exorbitant share price remaining buoyant, the doom merchants are having to revise their opinions of the economy.
Hopefully, but a moment ago, as Hester had spoken of drowning it in the deep sea, there was a sense of inevitable doom upon her as she thus received back this deadly symbol from the hand of fate.
仅仅片刻之前,海丝特还满怀希望地谈到要把红字沉进深深的海底,但当她从命运之神的手中重新接过这死一般的象征时,就感到一种难以避免的阴沉笼罩着她。
lot: a person's luck or condition in life, particularly as determined by fate or destiny destiny: the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future catastrophe: an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster