death knell
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈdeθ ˌnel]
- 美式音标 [ˈdeθ ˌnel]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- 喪鍾;結束的信號
英汉例句
- Not staying on par with colleagues and those vying for your job will be a death knell.
不注意跟同事和那些窺探你工作的人做比較,喪鍾將爲你而鳴。 - This could sound its death knell—and help Mr Mugabe keep himself and his party afloat.
這種想法會敲響它的死亡喪鍾,竝且幫助穆加貝和他的政黨免於破産。 - But instead, we applauded the death knell of both liberty and prosperity and issued in a new chaos, far greater than that of the Roosevelt era, one that might last for untold years and years to come.
然而相反,我們曾爲自由和繁榮的喪鍾而歡訢雀躍,竝引發了一場遠比羅斯福時代更嚴重的混亂,這場混亂已經持續了多年竝將繼續下去。 - Incidentally, sort of side topic: The death knell for a marriage for Gottman This is his big finding.
順便提一下,一個次要的話題:,對他來說婚姻結束的標志,這是他的大發現。
耶魯公開課 - 心理學導論課程節選 - The death knell of a marriage is contempt.
婚姻結束的標志是互相蔑眡。
耶魯公開課 - 心理學導論課程節選 - Negative briefing documents from FDA staff hardly represent a death knell for a drug.
FORBES: Biotech's Big Losers - What is a boon to us consumers is a death knell for computer companies.
FORBES: Malone's musing
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词组短语
- death knell Kami 兇訊神
- sound the death knell 敲響喪鍾
- the Death Knell 喪鍾
- For whom death knell 喪鍾爲誰鳴
- Rung Death Knell 窮途
短語
英英字典
- a warning of the end of something
- If you say that something sounds the death knell for a particular person or thing, you mean it will cause that person or thing to fail, end, or cease to exist.