cataclysm
cataclysm 英 [ˈkætəklɪzəm] 美 [ˈkætəˌklɪzəm]
n. 灾难；大洪水，地震；（社会政治的）大变动
名词复数:cataclysms
- The hurricane battered the coast, causing the city to flood, and tens of thousands of people were stranded without food or water. When an event causes great suffering, we call it a cataclysm.
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- n. 灾难；大洪水，地震；（社会政治的）大变动
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1. The Eastern Question was eventually settled by the cataclysm of World War I, from which the modern Arab state system emerged.
这个问题最终被第一次世界大战的灾难所解决，从那时起，现代阿拉伯国家开始成型。
- cataclysm (n.) "a deluge, a flood," originally especially "Noah's flood," 1630s, from French cataclysme (16c.), from Latin cataclysmos or directly from Greek kataklysmos "deluge, flood, inundation," from kataklyzein "to deluge," from kata "down" (see cata-) + klyzein "to wash," from PIE *kleue- "to wash, clean" (see cloaca).
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