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
- 丧钟；结束的信号
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窥探你工作的人做比较，丧钟将为你而鸣。 - This could sound its death knell—and help Mr Mugabe keep himself and his party afloat.
这种想法会敲响它的死亡丧钟，并且帮助穆加贝和他的政党免于破产。 - 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，我们曾为自由和繁荣的丧钟而欢欣雀跃，并引发了一场远比罗斯福时代更严重的混乱，这场混乱已经持续了多年并将继续下去。 - Incidentally, sort of side topic: The death knell for a marriage for Gottman This is his big finding.
顺便提一下，一个次要的话题：,对他来说婚姻结束的标志,这是他的大发现。
耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选 - The death knell of a marriage is contempt.
婚姻结束的标志是互相蔑视。
耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选 - 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 凶讯神
- sound the death knell 敲响丧钟
- the Death Knell 丧钟
- For whom death knell 丧钟为谁鸣
- Rung Death Knell 穷途
短语
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.