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单词 apocalyptic
释义
apocalyptic
adjective
uk
/əˌpɒk.əˈlɪp.tɪk/us
/əˌpɑː.kəˈlɪp.tɪk/
showingordescribingthetotaldestructionand end of theworld, orextremelybadfutureevents:
预示大灾难的，预言世界末日的
apocalypticvisionsof anuclearconfrontation对核对抗灾难性后果的描述
apocalypticwarningsaboutourdestructionof theenvironment对人类破坏环境可能带来毁灭性后果所作的警示
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Serious and unpleasant
(Definition ofapocalypticfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofapocalyptic

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He thus constructed a position that allowed him to condemn extremes inapocalypticterms, but it was a stance that has confused later commentators.
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Pictures donated to an art exhibition in support of the movement showed mainly allegorical symbols andapocalypticlandscapes.
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Thus, the use of such depictions reveals an expectation of widespreadapocalypticunderstanding that made their devices pertinent.
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It is thus bothapocalypticand anti-apocalyptic, a revelation and a concealment, uncovering both the necessity for and the impossibility of the end.
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This scenario represents the position of the reviewed authors : they all to some extent argue againstapocalypticreactions to population ageing.
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In particular, medieval orthodoxy has been shown to have been permeated at all levels byapocalypticideas.
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But it is possible to take a lessapocalypticview and to envisage a future in which the human lexicographer retains a very central role.
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Every chapter provides a rich and meticulous description of its subtheme, incorporating as manyapocalypticworks as possible.
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Other chapters deal with the particularities of the grandapocalypticnarrative.
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He offered the followingapocalypticdescription of the situation of art away from the self-congratulating festival.
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Divided responses to an ageing population :apocalypticdemography, ideology and rational social administration.
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In thisapocalypticnarrative, subjective bodily differences are cybernetically excised in the name of liberal humanist universalism and objective rationality.
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Global warming has however a vastapocalypticquality whose only near match (if one needed such a thing) would be planetary warming.
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His millenarianism thus emerged as a way of salvaging hisapocalypticaspirations for an eventual happy terrestrial future.
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This article demonstrates thatapocalypticconvictions were not dismissed from mainstream relevance after 1660.
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