cataclysm

英 [ˈkætəklɪzəm]

美 [ˈkætəklɪzəm]

n.  (突然降临的)大灾难，大灾变，大动乱

复数：cataclysms　

TOEFLGRE医学

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
  1. the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity
  2. the earthquake was a disaster
  Synonym:calamitycatastrophedisastertragedy
• a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
  Synonym:catastrophe

双语例句

• We know that in Cataclysm Deathwing is going to come back and destroy a lot of old world Azeroth.
  我们知道大灾变里死亡之翼将要回归，还会破坏掉旧艾泽拉斯大陆的很多地方。
• It's a cataclysm for all mankind.
  这是对全人类的一场大灾难。
• 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？
• If we implement a healing change, it would be temporary because health pools will be larger in Cataclysm, proportionate to healing, so we don't think that will be a problem.
  如果我们做出治疗调整，这只能是暂时的，因为大灾变中，人物的生命值将会有大幅度的提升，治疗也是成比例的，所以我们不认为这是个问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• No cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
  没有任何激变曾使整个世界变成荒芜。
• 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。