cataclysm

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sudden, violent event.
    — While the disaster capitalism complex does not deliberately scheme to create cataclysms on which it feeds (though Iraq may be a notable exception), there is plenty of evidence that its component industries work very hard indeed to make that current disastrous trends continue unchallenged.
  2. A sudden and violent change in the earth's crust.
  3. A great flood.

词形变化

cataclysms plural

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cataclysmal cataclysmic cataclysmist lunar cataclysm
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catastrophe

词源

From French cataclysme, from Latin cataclysmus, from Ancient Greek κατακλυσμός (kataklusmós, “deluge, flood”), from κατακλύζω (kataklúzō, “to dash over, flood, deluge, inundate”), from κατά (katá, “downwards, towards”) + κλύζω (klúzō, “to wash off, to wash away, to dash over”).
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