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单词 cataclysmic
释义
cataclysmic
(kætəklɪzmɪk )
adjective
A cataclysmic event is one that changes a situation or society very greatly, especially in an unpleasant way. [formal]
...the cataclysmic events that were destroying his faith in humanity.
Few had expected that change to be as cataclysmic as it turned out to be.
Synonyms: disastrous, devastating, catastrophic, calamitous  
Collocations:
cataclysmic change
Moving from 1964 to 1980, the second episode of this series traces an era of industrial unrest and cataclysmic change.
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It seemed the kind of place where not much had altered in a hundred years, even though in fact it had witnessed such cataclysmic changes.
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It signals the start of a new age of spiritual enlightenment after cataclysmic changes take place.
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Eclipsed in the popular imagination and history books by the cataclysmic changes that came after, 1913 was nevertheless, he argues, a time of great social upheaval.
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She said during a question and answer session later that her own life experience showed that apparently cataclysmic changes could be benign.
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cataclysmic effect
His passing will surely have a cataclysmic effect.
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Yet the 1914-18 conflict had as cataclysmic effect on the musical world.
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Even artificial stardom, it seems, can have cataclysmic effects on your private life.
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The script balances a tense thriller with an exploration of motherhood, media and the cataclysmic effects of an unthinkable event.
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cataclysmic event
In both cases it took a cataclysmic event (in sporting terms) to provoke change.
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When he was pressed for an explanation in 1698 he explained that the cataclysmic event had, indeed, occurred but it had somehow passed unnoticed.
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Are they trying to prepare us for a cataclysmic event?
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It was the single most cataclysmic event in world history.
Christianity Today
Reconstructions and historical accounts depict the road that led to the cataclysmic event.
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cataclysmic explosion
This would have resulted in a rapid and unsustainable increase in pressure, leading to a cataclysmic explosion.
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If they ever meet face-to-face in either universe, everything will be annihilated in a cataclysmic explosion.
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The cataclysmic explosion of a supernova will generate an expanding shock wave consisting of ejected materials.
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They are very luminous flashes of gamma rays heralding the death of distant, massive stars in cataclysmic explosions.
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