apocalyptic

apocalyptic
adjective
  1. describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world
    描述(或预示)世界末日的
    the apocalyptic visions of ecologists.
    生态学家所描述的世界末日景象。
    ■resembling the end of the world; momentous or catastrophic
    像是世界末日的;重大的;严重的;灾难性的
    the struggle between the two countries is assuming apocalyptic proportions.
    两国间的争斗达到了灾难性的程度。
    ■of or resembling the biblical Apocalypse
    (与)《圣经•启示录》(有关)的,像《圣经•启示录》中描述的
    apocalyptic imagery.
    世界末日的景象。
派生
apocalyptically
adverb
语源
  1. early 17th cent. (as a noun denoting the writer of the Apocalypse, St John): from Greek apokaluptikos, from apokaluptein 'uncover' (see apocalypse)
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