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词汇 apocalypse
释义 apocalypse
noun
uk /əˈpɒk.ə.lɪps/ us /əˈpɑː.kə.lɪps/
[ S or U ]
a very serious event resulting in great destruction and change: 大灾变;大动乱
The book offers a vision of the future in which there is a great nuclear apocalypse.这本书描述了未来核战争带来的灭顶之灾。
 the Apocalypse[ S ]
in the Bible, the total destruction and end of the world(《圣经》中描述的)世界末日
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apocalypse | American Dictionary


apocalypse
noun[ C/U ]
us/əˈpɑk·əˌlɪps/
an event resulting in great destruction and violent change:
Nobody was artistically better prepared to deal with the watery apocalypse that followed Hurricane Katrina than this 75-year-old man.
In the Bible, the Apocalypse is the total destruction of the world.

Examples of apocalypse


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He has perceived countless apocalypses, and is ruthless in acting to prevent them, whatever the cost.
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A large part of this secret literature was the apocalypses.
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Charlatans and mountebanks were fooling more, just as sages were educating more, and alluring and lurid apocalypses vied with sober philosophy on the shelves.
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He muses that these are commingled because it can be difficult to separate the big apocalypses from the small ones.
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Apocalypses can be viewed as good, evil, ambiguous or neutral, depending on the particular religion or belief system promoting them.
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Apocalypse's blood can heal other mutants, but is fatal for humans.
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At the core, apocalypses are a form of theodicy.
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Most of his prophetic and mystical writings date from the 1930s and 1940s and include a series of ten apocalypses that he claimed to have received in early 1934.
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History, apocalypse, and the secular imagination.
The four horsemen of the apocalypse.
After all, apocalypse now is what the dairy producers predicted when reform of the milk marketing system was first considered.
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I do not believe that a conversion can be produced by summing up the apocalypse.
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I perhaps find the apocalypse a less frightening possibility.
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Here are seven good, womanly reasons for reconsidering it before we reach some sort of inverted feminine apocalypse.
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I suppose that the answer is the horsemen of the apocalypse.
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