death knell
柯林斯词典
1. N-SING 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. 導致終結的原因[usu 'the' N 'for/of' n]
The tax increase sounded the death knell for the business. 稅收的增長預示著這項生意的終結。
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death knell (also death-knell)
剑桥词典
- a warning of the end of something
終結的預兆，完結的信號
The opening of the superstore will sound /toll the death knell for (= cause the failure of) hundreds of small independent shops . 大型超市的開張將會爲數百家獨立經營的小店鋪敲響喪鍾。 返回 death knell