| 词汇 | doom |
| 释义 | doom noun[ U ] uk /duːm/ us /duːm/ C2 death, destruction, or any very bad situation that cannot be avoided: 死亡;毁灭;厄运 A sense of doom hung over the entire country.整个国家都笼罩在厄运降临的气氛之中。 doom and gloom The newspapers are always full of doom and gloom (= bad news and unhappiness) these days.如今报纸上总是报道一些不幸的新闻消息。 Inevitable all roads lead to Romeidiom baked in be (only) a matter of timeidiom be damned if you do and damned if you don'tidiom be nothing for itidiom implacable implacably inalienable inalienably ineluctable inexorably insuppressible it can't be helpedidiom relentless relentlessly seal unavoidably unescapable unstoppable unstoppably doom verb[ Tusually passive ] uk /duːm/ us /duːm/ to make someone or something certain to do or experience something unpleasant, or to make something bad certain to happen: 使注定;使必然发生 [ + to infinitive ]Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past?我们注定要重复过去的错误吗？ doom someone/something to somethingMounting debts doomed the factory to closure.债台高筑使工厂无法逃脱关闭的命运。 Inevitable all roads lead to Romeidiom baked in be (only) a matter of timeidiom be damned if you do and damned if you don'tidiom be nothing for itidiom implacable implacably inalienable inalienably ineluctable inexorably insuppressible it can't be helpedidiom relentless relentlessly seal unavoidably unescapable unstoppable unstoppably doom | American Dictionarydoom noun[ U ] us/dum/ death, destruction, or any very bad situation that cannot be avoided: A sense of doom hung over the entire country. doom verb[ T ] us/dum/ to be the certain cause of someone or something having a bad end, esp. to die or to fail: The effort is doomed to failure. He was doomed to be a one-term president like Jimmy Carter. Examples of doomdoom The project or the "plan" is doomed to failure, and the failure is also the condition of most of the comical effects of the novel. If stabilization was doomed because of the lack of political support, was it worth trying such a policy? All experimental enquiry is doomed to isolation from the broad mass of society. The complex which is thus formed is doomed to early repression; but it continues to exercise a great and lasting influence from the unconscious. In other words, the requirement that the arguments work outside any tradition meant that they were doomed to failure. The attempt to stand outside our own culture is doomed to failure. Needless to say, all attempts at theoretical thinking were doomed as long as this ideal was extolled. The testimony, the words and actions, of this doomed character will then reveal to the audience the" natural" and inevitable decline of the disabled character. The authors therefore have concluded that in such a scenario, life itself may be immortal but any individual is doomed to mortality. As far as relieving poverty in old age is concerned, the 1948 settlement was doomed from the outset. The attempts to pronounce moral judgments are doomed to failure. Many peace conferences were doomed undertakings, which could not deliver what was expected of them. By the end of 1991, these realities had become inescapable, thereby dooming the confederation. Her own attempts at intimacy always seem to be doomed. Unfortunately, this salvage operation is doomed to failure. See all examples of doom These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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