英语词汇“doomsday clock”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

doomsday clock n. a clock imagined as signalling the end of the world, symbolically at the stroke of midnight; (in later use) spec. a notional clock on which the relative proximity to midnight indicates the current likelihood of an impending man-made catastrophe causing the destruction of the world.The idea of the specific notional clock was first introduced and represented in 1947 on the cover of the June edition of the Bull. Atomic Scientists, when the time was set at seven minutes to midnight. The time has been moved back and forth since then, typically according to the increased or decreased likelihood of nuclear war, and more recently according to the dangers posed by unchecked climate change.

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1917 V. Lindsay in Poetry Oct. 15 The fatal hour is striking in all the doomsday clocks.

1968 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 62 1095/2 That week [of the Cuban missile crisis] with its eerie sense of a doomsday clock ticking relentlessly away.

1974 Instant Res. on Peace & Violence 4 (end matter) (advt.) The moving of the Bulletin's ‘doomsday clock’ 3 minutes closer to midnight.

2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 26 July b8/1 ‘The markets believe the political parties will reach a compromise agreement to avert a default,’ Mr. El-Erian said, especially considering that they may have a bit more time on the doomsday clock.

单词	doomsday clock
释义	> as lemmas doomsday clock doomsday clock n. a clock imagined as signalling the end of the world, symbolically at the stroke of midnight; (in later use) spec. a notional clock on which the relative proximity to midnight indicates the current likelihood of an impending man-made catastrophe causing the destruction of the world.The idea of the specific notional clock was first introduced and represented in 1947 on the cover of the June edition of the Bull. Atomic Scientists, when the time was set at seven minutes to midnight. The time has been moved back and forth since then, typically according to the increased or decreased likelihood of nuclear war, and more recently according to the dangers posed by unchecked climate change. ΚΠ 1917 V. Lindsay in Poetry Oct. 15 The fatal hour is striking in all the doomsday clocks. 1968 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 62 1095/2 That week [of the Cuban missile crisis] with its eerie sense of a doomsday clock ticking relentlessly away. 1974 Instant Res. on Peace & Violence 4 (end matter) (advt.) The moving of the Bulletin's ‘doomsday clock’ 3 minutes closer to midnight. 2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 26 July b8/1 ‘The markets believe the political parties will reach a compromise agreement to avert a default,’ Mr. El-Erian said, especially considering that they may have a bit more time on the doomsday clock. extracted from doomsdayn. < as lemmas
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