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单词 apocalypse
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apocalypse
noun
uk
/əˈpɒk.ə.lɪps/us
/əˈpɑː.kə.lɪps/
[SorU]
a veryseriouseventresultingingreatdestructionandchange:
大灾变；大动乱
Thebookoffersavisionof thefuturein which there is agreatnuclearapocalypse.这本书描述了未来核战争带来的灭顶之灾。
the Apocalypse[S]
in theBible, thetotaldestructionand end of theworld
（《圣经》中描述的）世界末日
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Destroying and demolishing
  • annihilate
  • annihilation
  • bash
  • bash through (something)
  • be sacrificed on the altar ofsomethingidiom
  • blast
  • in piecesidiom
  • indestructibility
  • killsomethingoff
  • kill the goose that lays the golden eggidiom
  • knock
  • sacrifice
  • self-devouring
  • shred
  • sink
  • smash
  • stave
  • stavesomethingin
  • takesomethingout
  • tear
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(Definition ofapocalypsefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

apocalypse| American Dictionary

apocalypse
noun[C/U]
us
/əˈpɑk·əˌlɪps/
aneventresultingingreatdestructionandviolentchange:
Nobody wasartisticallybetterpreparedtodealwith thewateryapocalypse thatfollowedHurricane Katrina than this 75-year-old man.
In theBible, the Apocalypse is thetotaldestructionof theworld.
(Definition ofapocalypsefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He has perceived countless apocalypses, and is ruthless in acting to prevent them, whatever the cost.
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A large part of this secret literature was the apocalypses.
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Charlatans and mountebanks were fooling more, just as sages were educating more, and alluring and lurid apocalypses vied with sober philosophy on the shelves.
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He muses that these are commingled because it can be difficult to separate the big apocalypses from the small ones.
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Apocalypses can be viewed as good, evil, ambiguous or neutral, depending on the particular religion or belief system promoting them.
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Apocalypse's blood can heal other mutants, but is fatal for humans.
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At the core, apocalypses are a form of theodicy.
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Most of his prophetic and mystical writings date from the 1930s and 1940s and include a series of ten apocalypses that he claimed to have received in early 1934.
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History,apocalypse, and the secular imagination.
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The four horsemen of theapocalypse.
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After all,apocalypsenow is what the dairy producers predicted when reform of the milk marketing system was first considered.
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I do not believe that a conversion can be produced by summing up theapocalypse.
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I perhaps find theapocalypsea less frightening possibility.
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Here are seven good, womanly reasons for reconsidering it before we reach some sort of inverted feminineapocalypse.
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I suppose that the answer is the horsemen of theapocalypse.
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