| 释义 |
doomsdayn.
1. the day of the last judgement according to theChristian faith.the end of the world（基督教所信的）最后审判日，世界末日。
△Ham.2.2. 247 (238): “Then isdoomsday near.” (Because honesty is incompatiblewith the world’s nature and hence must be destructiveof it.) 那么世界末日快到了。
2. the day of the last judgement,when “the moonshall not give her light” 世界末日（据说其时月亮无光）。
△Ham.1.1.120:“Was sick almost to doomsday witheclipse.” i.e.almost to the point of complete dark-ness. （月亮）由于侵蚀而病容满面，昏暗得好像到了世界末日。
3. the day of last judgement,when the world was sup-posedly to be consumed by fire世界末日（据说届时世界将为大火烧掉）。
△Com.3.2.102 (99): “if she lives tilldoomsday,she’ll burn a week longer than the wholeworld.”如果她能活到世界末日，她会在全世界都烧光了之后再多燃烧一个星期。
4. i.e. death sentence末日，（指）死刑判决。
△Rom.3.3.9:“What less than doomsday is the Prince’s doom?”除了死罪以外，亲王还会给我什么判决？ |