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cataclysmic

英 [ˌkætəˈklɪzmɪk] 美 [ˌkætəˈklɪzmɪk]

adj. 灾难性的；极不成功的；大变动的

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柯林斯英汉双解大词典

    • cataclysmic /ˈkætəˌklɪzmɪk/

    • 1

      形容词 A cataclysmic event is one that changes a situation or society very greatly, especially in an unpleasant way. 大变动的

      Few had expected that change to be as cataclysmic as it turned out to be.

      没有人预测到那些变化会变成一种大灾难。

英英释义

cataclysmic[,kætə'klizmik]

  • adj.
    • 1

      severely destructive

      cataclysmic nuclear war ; a cataclysmic earthquake

      同义词： cataclysmal

网络释义
    短语
  • cataclysmic variable
    激变变星
  • cataclysmic sight
    灾变景观
  • Cataclysmic variables
    激变变星
  • cataclysmic binaries
    激变双星
  • cataclysmic metamorphosis
    突变态
  • Cataclysmic variable star
    激变变星
  • a cataclysmic variable
    激变变星
  • magnetic cataclysmic variable
    磁激变变星
  • theory of cataclysmic change
    激变论

同根词

词根：cataclysm

  • adj.
  • n.

    • cataclysm 灾难；大洪水，地震；（社会政治的）大变动

同近义词
  • adj.

双语例句

  • Few had expected that change to be as cataclysmic as it turned out to be.

    没有人预测到那些变化会变成一种大灾难。

  • The results were cataclysmic.

    结果是灾难性的。

  • Floods and other cataclysmic events like tsunamis.

    洪灾和海啸等其他灾难性事件。

原声例句

  • "Pakistan is a nation which could either serve as a force for stability and progress in a volatile region, or it could become the epicenter for radicalism and violence on a cataclysmic scale,".

    VOA : standard.2009.05.04

  • If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

    你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

    政治哲学导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

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