cataclysm

英 ['kætəklɪzəm] 美 ['kætəklɪzəm]

• n. 大洪水；地震；(社会政治的)大变动

英英释义

Noun:

1. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface

2. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;

   "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"
   "the earthquake was a disaster"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The cataclysm flooded the entire valley.
   洪水淹没了整个山谷。
2. A cataclysm caused by the dam breaking.
   一场因水坝破裂所造成的大洪水。
3. No cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
   没有任何激变曾使整个世界变成荒芜。
4. World War II was a cataclysm for all of Europe.
   第二次世界大战对整个欧洲是一大剧变。
5. The Great Depression was an economic cataclysm on a scale hard to imagine.
   大萧条是一场规模难以想像的经济灾难。

近反义词

【近义词】

• disaster 灾难
• eruption 爆发
• catastrophe 大灾难
• calamity 灾难
• tragedy 悲剧
• upheaval 向上的运动
• debacle 惨败