| 释义 |
the end of the world1The termination of life on the earth.People screamed and flung themselves face down upon the earth fearing it was the end of the world....- And we have become almost immune to those harbingers of doom who foretell the end of the world.
- That was how the prophets of doom predicted the end of the world at midnight on the millennium.
1.1 informal A complete disaster: it’s not the end of the world if we draw...- There will be some who will proclaim this result a disaster, the end of the world.
- It would be great to make a million dollars but if we don't, that's not exactly the end of the world..
- Leaving it a little more open-ended wouldn't be the end of the world.
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