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单词 doom
释义
doom
noun[U]
uk
/duːm/us
/duːm/
C2
death,destruction, or any verybadsituationthat cannot beavoided:
死亡；毁灭；厄运
Asenseof doomhungover theentirecountry.整个国家都笼罩在厄运降临的气氛之中。
Thenewspapersare alwaysfullof doomandgloom(=badnewsandunhappiness)thesedays.如今报纸上总是报道一些不幸的新闻消息。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Inevitable
  • all roads lead to Romeidiom
  • automatic
  • automatically
  • be (only) a matter of timeidiom
  • be damned ifyoudo and damned ifyoudon'tidiom
  • be nothing for itidiom
  • be part and parcel ofsomethingidiom
  • implacability
  • implacable
  • implacably
  • inalienable
  • ineluctable
  • inexorably
  • it can't be helpedidiom
  • relentless
  • relentlessly
  • relentlessness
  • seal
  • unavoidably
  • unstoppable
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doom
verb[Tusually passive]
uk
/duːm/us
/duːm/
to make someone or somethingcertainto do orexperiencesomethingunpleasant, or to make somethingbadcertaintohappen:
使注定；使必然发生
[+ to infinitive]Are we doomedtorepeatthemistakesof the past?我们注定要重复过去的错误吗？
Mountingdebtsdoomed thefactorytoclosure.债台高筑使工厂无法逃脱关闭的命运。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Inevitable
  • all roads lead to Romeidiom
  • automatic
  • automatically
  • be (only) a matter of timeidiom
  • be damned ifyoudo and damned ifyoudon'tidiom
  • be nothing for itidiom
  • be part and parcel ofsomethingidiom
  • implacability
  • implacable
  • implacably
  • inalienable
  • ineluctable
  • inexorably
  • it can't be helpedidiom
  • relentless
  • relentlessly
  • relentlessness
  • seal
  • unavoidably
  • unstoppable
See more results »
(Definition ofdoomfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

doom| American Dictionary

doom
noun[U]
us
/dum/
death,destruction, or any verybadsituationthat cannot beavoided:
Asenseof doomhungover theentirecountry.
doom
verb[T]
us
/dum/
to be thecertaincauseof someone or something having abadend,esp. todieor tofail:
Theeffortis doomed tofailure.
He was doomed to be a one-termpresidentlike Jimmy Carter.
(Definition ofdoomfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdoom

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The project or the "plan" is doomed to failure, and the failure is also the condition of most of the comical effects of the novel.
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If stabilization was doomed because of the lack of political support, was it worth trying such a policy?
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All experimental enquiry is doomed to isolation from the broad mass of society.
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The complex which is thus formed is doomed to early repression; but it continues to exercise a great and lasting influence from the unconscious.
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In other words, the requirement that the arguments work outside any tradition meant that they were doomed to failure.
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The attempt to stand outside our own culture is doomed to failure.
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Needless to say, all attempts at theoretical thinking were doomed as long as this ideal was extolled.
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The testimony, the words and actions, of this doomed character will then reveal to the audience the" natural" and inevitable decline of the disabled character.
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The authors therefore have concluded that in such a scenario, life itself may be immortal but any individual is doomed to mortality.
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As far as relieving poverty in old age is concerned, the 1948 settlement was doomed from the outset.
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The attempts to pronounce moral judgments are doomed to failure.
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Many peace conferences were doomed undertakings, which could not deliver what was expected of them.
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By the end of 1991, these realities had become inescapable, thereby dooming the confederation.
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Her own attempts at intimacy always seem to be doomed.
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Unfortunately, this salvage operation is doomed to failure.
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