cataclysm

英 [ˈkætəklɪzəm]

美 [ˈkætəklɪzəm]

n.  (突然降临的)大灾难，大灾变，大动乱

复数：cataclysms　

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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

• That's fine for now, but not where we want to be in Cataclysm.
  这么做现在可以，但是不是我们在大灾变中想要的。
• 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。
• Heroic Strike will no longer be an "on next swing" attack, as we are removing this mechanic in Cataclysm.
  英勇打击不再是“下一次攻击时”，在大灾变中我们将会移除所有“在下一次攻击时使用”机制。
• 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。
• Sixty years after the cataclysm that drove humanity underground, it finally emerges to retake the surface.
  在人类被驱遣到地底六年之后，终于开始了反攻，重夺地表。
• You know we are on the brink of another cataclysm.
  你就知道我们正濒临另一次大动乱。
• No cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
  没有任何激变曾使整个世界变成荒芜。
• In my books I reveal the immense cataclysm that is going to torment the earth in the near future.
  在我的书我揭示了巨大的灾难，快要折磨在不久的将来地球。
• 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。
• 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。