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单词 Armageddon
释义
ArmageddonAr‧ma‧ged‧don /ˌɑːməˈɡedn $ ˌɑːr-/ noun [singular, uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINArmageddon
Origin:
1800-1900 Greek place of a great battle at the end of the world, described in the Bible
Examples
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  • Could the future see a species capable of engaging in the defeat of the law of entropy in a final Armageddon?
  • Montana officials have responded to Mrs Prophet's ideas of Armageddon like battle-hardened bureaucrats.
  • Most people regarded adolescence as some kind of Armageddon, a battle one was sure to lose.
  • Usually these reports concentrate on prophecies of a forthcoming Armageddon but many also describe a dire contemporary situation.
  • We joke about it, but most of us are slaves to every medical Armageddon story that comes along.
a terrible battle that will destroy the world:  a nuclear Armageddon
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