doom
美 [dum]
英 [du?m] 
- n.厄運;毀滅;劫數;死亡
- v.使…注定失敗(或遭殃、死亡等)
- 網絡毀滅戰士;末日;毀滅金屬
詞形變化
第三人稱單數:dooms 現在分詞:dooming 過去式:doomed 同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | [u] 死亡;毀滅;厄運;劫數death or destruction; any terrible event that you cannot avoid |
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| She had a sense of impending doom(= felt that sth very bad was going to happen) . 她預感到厄運已經逼近。 |
1. | [usupass] ~ sb/sth (to sth).~ sb/sth to do sth 使…注定失敗(或遭殃、死亡等)to make sb/sth certain to fail, suffer, die, etc. |
| The plan was doomed to failure . 這個計劃注定要失敗。 |
| The marriage was doomed from the start . 這樁婚姻從一開始就注定要破裂。 |
習慣用語
doom and gloom|gloom and doom
悲觀失望;無望;前景暗淡a general feeling of having lost all hope, and of pessimism(= expecting things to go badly)
| Despite the obvious setbacks, it is not all doom and gloom for the England team. 盡管明顯受挫,但對英格蘭隊來說絕非勝利無望。 |
prophet of doom|doom merchant
末日預言者a person who predicts that things will go very badly
| The prophets of doom who said television would kill off the book were wrong. 認為電視會扼殺書籍的悲觀預言家完全錯了。 |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
I do not wish you to say that Michael is the bearer of doom and gloom or that this scribe has contrived this information.
我不希望你說,邁克爾是承載危困或隸有預謀的這個信息。
And when the human beings listened to it they secretly trembled, hearing in it a prophecy of their future doom.
每當人類聽到歌詞中對末日的語言,就嚇得暗暗發抖。
It sure seems as if that kind of doom is imminent, at least if this whole iPhone 4 pre-order situation is any indication of future tragedy.
看起來某種厄運正迫在眉睫,至少整個iPhone4的預訂過程預示著未來的悲劇。
There was no doubt that, notwithstanding the few Cassandras who correctly prophesied gloom and doom, the profession had failed colossally.
毫無疑問,盡管有少數幾個唱衰者正確預測了暗淡的前景,但整個經濟學界遭遇了慘敗。
of late , jane - only - only of late - i began to see and acknowledge the hand of god in my doom.
最近,簡只不過是最近我在厄運中開始看到并承認上帝之手。
I have to find my peace cuz no one seems to let me be false prophets cry of doom.
我不得不尋找我的安寧,因為似乎沒有人想讓我錯誤的對未來抱悲觀態度
Who knows when another "accident" involving millions of men will happen, an "accident" that will be the dreadful day of our doom?
誰知道什么時候另一個牽涉到千百萬人的“偶然事件”會發生,這一“偶然事件”將會是一個給我們帶來浩劫的可怕日子?
In recent months, investors have been frantically squinting to see light at the end of the tunnel of banking doom.
近幾個月來,投資者一直瘋狂地期待看到銀行業厄運結束的希望之光。
After she was resurrected, the mood changed, and, despite the musical episode, I don't think all that gloom and doom sent the right message.
她復活后,情緒也改變了。除了音樂的插曲外,我并不認為所有的陰暗和厄運傳達了正確的信息。
I was waiting prayerfully for the name of Oscar Zinner to be called even though I knew that this might mean my doom.
我虔誠地等著有人叫奧斯卡·欽納的名字--雖然也知道,這一叫可能意味著我大禍臨頭。
The scabbard too, will save him and doom him, for a man who cannot be wounded is not a man that a woman can choose to love.
劍鞘也一樣,挽救他,也毀滅他。因為沒有哪個女人會選擇愛上一個不會受傷的男人。
I broke to my mother the news of my impending doom, but it did not seem to disturb her much.
我忙把這大禍臨頭的噩耗向我母親吐露,但她似乎并不慌張。
Chandler: You can always spot someone who's never seen one of his plays before. Notice, no fear, no sense of impending doom. . .
因為你以前沒有看過他的節目,所以現在可以激動一下啊。注意,不要害怕,不要感覺像世界末日來臨…
The martyr, when faced even by a death of bodily anguish and horror, finds in the very terror of his doom a strong stimulant and tonic.
一個殉道者即使在面臨死亡這種可怕的肉體痛苦時也能從他恐怖的厄運中找到莫大的鼓舞與安慰。
With a tanking economy, up-and-down stock markets, ever growing unemployment, all this doom and gloom leaves us broke and depressed.
外掛經濟、忽上忽下的股票市場和失業人數的不斷增加,所有這些不幸和抑郁留給我們的是貧困和憂傷。
Blood-soaked pop theology for a doom-laden time, its effect that of a gripping yet reductive paradox: It lifts us downward.
流行神學,它的影響效應就是一個吸引人的但是在減少中的悖論:提升我們向低處發展。
The spirit of the age tends to doom the lawyer to a narrow life of practice, the business man to a mere money-making career.
時代的精神注定要把律師限定在事務所的狹小天地里,而商人則成了純粹的賺錢職業。
You just know when a character in a soap opera utters the line, 'I've never been so happy, ' that doom is just a story-liner's fancy away.
你知道,當主角在肥皂劇中說出這樣的臺詞:“我感到如此幸福”,這不過是劇作者的美好想象而已。
His mother's blindness before she died had terrified him and his own eye infection had been a stroke of doom.
在他母親去世前失明的那些年他十分害怕,而且他認為自己眼部的感染是命中注定。
As it turned out, "Dr. Doom" accurately predicted the severe recession from which we're just now beginning to recover.
結果證明,“厄運”博士精確地預言了嚴峻的經濟衰退,而我們才剛剛開始了解。
Who knows when another "accident" involving millions of men will happen, an "accident" that will be the dreadful day of our doom?
誰知道什么時候另一個牽涉到千百萬人的“偶然事件”會發生,這一“偶然事件”將會是一個給我們帶來浩劫的可怕日子?
I was waiting prayerfully for the name of Oscar Zinner to be called even though I knew that this might mean my doom.
我虔誠地等著有人叫奧斯卡·欽納的名字--雖然也知道,這一叫可能意味著我大禍臨頭。
In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged Nin secret a Master Ring to control all others.
在魔多末日火山的烈焰中黑暗魔君索倫秘密制造了一枚戒指-至尊魔戒,來控制其他所有的戒指。
However, he said Palestinian violence against Israel could doom any chance for a future Palestine.
但是他也表示,巴勒斯坦人針對以色列的暴力活動可能破壞巴勒斯坦未來的機會。
For all the fears of bad loans and impending doom at Chinese banks, their latest earnings failed to live up to such doubts.
盡管人們對中國各銀行的不良貸款和即將迎來的厄運感到擔心,但這些銀行的最新盈利數據并未給此類疑慮提供佐證。
One of the only bits of good news amid this doom and gloom is the steady rise in digital music sales.
不幸中的萬幸是,數字音樂的銷量在穩步上升。
It takes just two or three big waves to signal doom: once water flows behind the defences, even the thickest ramparts are swift to collapse.
一兩個大浪就可以宣告末日將至:海水一旦流過城墻,再厚的城墻也難逃一塌。
the men are limp , they feel a doom somewhere , and they go about as if there was nothing to be done.
男子們是軟弱的,他們覺得災禍將臨,于是他們茍且將事,仿佛毫無辦法。
He was thinking of his little cozy room. He didn't know he might be facing his doom.
他在想著自己舒適的家。他不知道自己可能面對厄運。
Marc Faber, the money manager known as Doctor Doom for his bearish views, calls Mr. Hendry "a deep thinker. "
因悲觀看法而被稱為末日博士的短期資本經營者(moneymanager)麥嘉華(MarcFaber,又譯為馬克·法伯)稱亨德利先生為“一位深思者。”
If you go to Troy, you'll never come home, for your glory walks hand in hand with your doom, and I shall never see you again.
如果去特洛伊,你將一去不返,因為你榮耀之日也是你絕命之時,而我也永遠不會再見不到你了。
Does a falling dollar, with its implications of American weakness, spell doom for the rest of the planet?
伴隨著美國經濟疲軟,持續走貶的美元是這個世界其他地區注定的厄運嗎?
After we set apart, and the doom is coming. Love burns up in the twinkling of an eye, leaving only the eteranl words and burning tears.
告別后,末日將至,愛情瞬間燃燒,只留下不熄滅的對白,和炙熱的淚光。
During August our doom appeared to some giddy Western journalists "a question of days" .
八月間,在西方某些輕率的記者看來,我們的毀滅似乎“指日可待”。
The makers of a famous symbol of hope, it seems, see nothing but doom and gloom.
蠟燭以象征希望而著名,而它的制造者們看到的只有暗淡和無望。
It towered hundreds of feet in the air . . . and just stayed there, looming over the ships like the shadow of doom.
它在天空…中聳立了數百腳和呆在那里,隱約地出現在象死命的陰影的船。
Accept only what rings true to you, and carries no sense of impending doom or fear.
只接受那些你聽起來真實可靠的,并且不帶有逼近的厄運或者恐懼的信息。
In his Scheherazade-like attempt to stave off doom, he appoints himself a bard of parallel old cultures transplanted to an even older land.
在他的天方夜譚般的企圖避開厄運,他任命自己的舊文化巴德平行移植到更老的土地。
We are now seeing that the Middle Kingdom can help rekindle a boom in a region that it once appeared to doom.
現在我們看到,中國可以幫助那些經濟一度低迷的地區重振雄風。
How stupid you were! To rescue them under such heavy guard is just seeking your own doom.
你真魯莽!想在這么森嚴的守衛下營救他們簡直就是飛蛾撲火。
Being surrounded with no means of escape, it looks as if we must await our doom.
我們被包圍得水泄不通,無法突圍,只好坐以待斃。
Instead, we could get a global currency war that would doom the already anemic recovery rather than help any of its combatants.
我們很可能就要目睹一場全球貨幣戰,這場戰爭不僅不會給任何參戰方帶來幫助,反而會使尚未恢復元氣的經濟再遭創傷。