apocalypse是什么意思

双语例句

(1)What happened in Chernobyl was a nuclear apocalypse.

切尔诺贝利发生的事就是一场核灾难。

(2)The film shows the Earth before the great apocalypse.

这部电影展示的是大灾变来临前的地球景象。

(3)The environmental apocalypse is caused by global warming.

环境大灾难是由全球变暖引起的。

(4)Civilization is on the brink of apocalypse.

文明已濒临毁灭的边缘。

(5)It was descendants of those Europeans who came up with this apocalypse mumbo-jumbo.

正是这些欧洲人的后代想出了这种胡编乱造的末日预言。

(6)That's the genre of an apocalypse.

这就是启示书的体裁。

(7)Take a zombie apocalypse for example.

比如‘僵尸末日’。

(8)And apocalypse just means opening up, revelation.

天启意思是打开，启示录。

同义词

n. 启示；天启

同根词

词根 apocalypse

(1)apocalyptic adj. 启示录的；天启的

(2)apocalyptical adj. 天启的，启示论的

释义

n.

the complete final destruction of the world, especially as described in the biblical book of Revelation

（尤指《圣经·启示录》中描述的）世界末日。

an event involving destruction or damage on an awesome or catastrophic scale

大动乱，大灾变

a stock market apocalypse.

股市崩盘。

(the Apocalypse)(especially in the Vulgate Bible)the book of Revelation

（尤指拉丁文《圣经》中的）《启示录》。

词源

"Old English, via Old French and ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apokalupsis, from apokaluptein ‘uncover, reveal'， from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover’."

(1)Now, good night. And if there's an apocalypse, good luck.

晚安。如果世界末日降临的话，祝你好运。《The Big Bang Theory Season 3》《生活大爆炸 第三季》

(2)No bank or ratings agency is going to confirm a story like this just because it comes from two guys in a, sorry, garage band hedge fund that thinks it's the apocalypse.

银行和评级机构不会确认这样的消息，就因为两个来自基金开在车库的家伙觉得世界末日要到了。《The Big Short》《大空头》