cataclysm是什么意思，cataclysm怎么读

cataclysm基本信息

cataclysm基本信息

读法：英 ["kætə,klɪz(ə)m] 美 ["kætəklɪzəm]

释义：

n. 灾难；大洪水，地震；（社会政治的）大变动

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英英释义

Noun:

a sudden violent change in the earth"s surface

an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;"the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"
"the earthquake was a disaster"

中英词源

cataclysm 大灾难

cata-, 向下。-clysm, 冲洗，流，词源可能同flow, flood. 原指大洪水。

cataclysm (n.): 1630s, from French cataclysme (16c.), from Latin cataclysmos or directly from Greek kataklysmos "deluge, flood, inundation," from kataklyzein "to deluge," from kata "down" (see cata-) + klyzein "to wash," from PIE *kleue- "to wash, clean" (see cloaca).

词态变化

复数 cataclysms;
形容词 cataclysmic;

权威造句

1. The extinct volcano"s eruption would mean a cataclysm for the city.: 死火山又重新喷发,对这座城市来说意味着大难临头.

2. The floods were a cataclysm from which the local people never recovered.: 经历了这场特大洪水,当地人民元气大伤,很难恢复.

3. The cataclysm flooded the entire valley.: 洪水淹没了整个山谷.

4. No cataclysm has desolated the whole world.: 没有任何激变曾使整个世界变成荒芜.

5. You"ve been in love, and it hasn"t meant such a cataclysm, hasn"t proved the great affair.: 你曾经恋爱过, 这并不意味是天翻地覆的变化, 并没有证明是件大事.

近反义词

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

相似短语

cataclysm theory 灾变说

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