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

cataclysm

/ˈkatəˌklɪz(ə)m

noun

1A large-scale and violent event in the natural world: the cataclysm at the end of the Cretaceous Period...

Meanwhile, across the globe, there are thousands of families like his: slowly rebuilding, trying to make sense of a natural cataclysm which changed their lives forever.
Many have noticed that poorer nations are more severely affected by natural cataclysms than developed nations.
These are not the victims of natural cataclysms, these are the victims of human greed for power, violence, stupidity, and of man's destructive impulses.

1.1A sudden violent political or social upheaval: the cataclysm of the First World War...

It indicates that despite the political upheavals and cataclysms of the past decade, the core of military professionals, who constitute the nucleus of the Russian Armed Forces, has been preserved.
The country, he writes, has exceeded its ‘limit for political and socio-economic upheavals, cataclysms and radical reforms.’
He has never written a poem that addresses, passionately, or engages with, his own country's terrible political state, the cataclysms for centuries.

Synonyms

disaster, catastrophe, calamity, tragedy, act of God, devastation, crisis, holocaust, ruin, ruination, upheaval, convulsion, blow, shock, reverse, trouble, trial, tribulation;

misfortune, mishap, accident, mischance, misadventure, woe, affliction, distress

informal meltdown, whammy

British informal car crash

archaic bale

Scottish archaic mishanter

Derivatives

cataclysmal

/-ˈklɪzm(ə)l/ adjective

Origin

Early 17th century (originally denoting the biblical Flood described in Genesis): from French cataclysme, via Latin from Greek kataklusmos 'deluge', from kata- 'down' + kluzein 'to wash'.

cataract from Late Middle English:
Latin cataracta (from Greek kataraktes, ‘rushing down’) meant both ‘waterfall or floodgate’ and ‘portcullis’. The first meaning led to the ‘large waterfall’ sense of the English word cataract, and the second is probably behind the medical sense describing the clouding of the lens of the eye. A person's vision is blocked by this condition as if a portcullis had been lowered over the eye. Other words in English containing kata ‘down’ include cataclysm (early 17th century) from kluzein ‘to wash’; catapult (late 16th century) from pallein ‘hurl’; and catastrophe (mid 16th century) from strophē ‘turning’.

单词	cataclysm
释义	cataclysm /ˈkatəˌklɪz(ə)m / noun 1A large-scale and violent event in the natural world: the cataclysm at the end of the Cretaceous Period... Meanwhile, across the globe, there are thousands of families like his: slowly rebuilding, trying to make sense of a natural cataclysm which changed their lives forever. Many have noticed that poorer nations are more severely affected by natural cataclysms than developed nations. These are not the victims of natural cataclysms, these are the victims of human greed for power, violence, stupidity, and of man's destructive impulses. 1.1A sudden violent political or social upheaval: the cataclysm of the First World War... It indicates that despite the political upheavals and cataclysms of the past decade, the core of military professionals, who constitute the nucleus of the Russian Armed Forces, has been preserved. The country, he writes, has exceeded its ‘limit for political and socio-economic upheavals, cataclysms and radical reforms.’ He has never written a poem that addresses, passionately, or engages with, his own country's terrible political state, the cataclysms for centuries. Synonyms disaster, catastrophe, calamity, tragedy, act of God, devastation, crisis, holocaust, ruin, ruination, upheaval, convulsion, blow, shock, reverse, trouble, trial, tribulation; misfortune, mishap, accident, mischance, misadventure, woe, affliction, distress informal meltdown, whammy British informal car crash archaic bale Scottish archaic mishanter Derivatives cataclysmal /-ˈklɪzm(ə)l/ adjective Origin Early 17th century (originally denoting the biblical Flood described in Genesis): from French cataclysme, via Latin from Greek kataklusmos 'deluge', from kata- 'down' + kluzein 'to wash'. cataract from Late Middle English: Latin cataracta (from Greek kataraktes, ‘rushing down’) meant both ‘waterfall or floodgate’ and ‘portcullis’. The first meaning led to the ‘large waterfall’ sense of the English word cataract, and the second is probably behind the medical sense describing the clouding of the lens of the eye. A person's vision is blocked by this condition as if a portcullis had been lowered over the eye. Other words in English containing kata ‘down’ include cataclysm (early 17th century) from kluzein ‘to wash’; catapult (late 16th century) from pallein ‘hurl’; and catastrophe (mid 16th century) from strophē ‘turning’.
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