| 单词 | end-of-the-world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasend-of-the-world a. Termination of existence; destruction, abolition. (The early examples of end of the world should perhaps be referred to 7, as world may have been taken in its older temporal sense; cf. however French fin du monde.) it isn't (or wouldn't be, etc.) the end of the world, it is not a calamity, it is not a matter of great importance. Also end-of-the-world used attributively or as an adjective. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] end832 bale-sithea1000 wrakea1275 wonderc1275 destroyingc1300 destruction1340 contritionc1384 stroying1396 undoing1398 tininga1400 ruinc1425 fatec1430 fordoingc1450 perishing?1523 shipwreck1526 pernicion?1530 ruining1562 ruinating1587 defeasance1590 defeature1592 breakneck1598 ruination1599 defeat1600 doom1609 planet-striking1611 mismaking1615 rasurea1616 destructa1638 perition1640 interemption1656 smashing1821 degrowth1876 uncreation1884 creative destruction1927 832 Charter in Sweet O.E.T. 447 ðet he ðas god forðleste oð wiaralde ende. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 22390 His dome þate him sale driue til ende. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. i. §8 The world may have an end before he proves his Atoms could give it a beginning. a1704 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. I. §126 There would be an end of all civil government, if the assignment of civil power were by such institution. 1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara iii. in John Bull's Other Island 271 Nothing's going to happen to you;..it wouldnt be the end of the world if anything did. 1964 J. Creasey Guilt of Innocence xvi. 136 I know exactly what a shock you had... But it isn't the end of the world, you know. 1964 A. Wilson Late Call ii. 78 ‘I don't see the numbers very clearly...’ ‘Well, it isn't the end of the world if you don't.’ < as lemmas |
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