apocalyptic

英 [əˌpɒkəˈlɪptɪk]

美 [əˌpɑːkəˈlɪptɪk]

adj.  描述(历史)大动乱的; 预示(未来)大灾变的; 似末世的; 像世界末日的

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.19884 / COCA.12862

牛津词典

adj.

• 描述（历史）大动乱的；预示（未来）大灾变的
  describing very serious damage and destruction in past or future events
  1. an apocalyptic view of history
     对历史抱极其悲观的观点
  2. apocalyptic warnings of the end of society
     对社会末日骇人听闻的预警
• 似末世的；像世界末日的
  like the end of the world
  1. an apocalyptic scene
     末世景象

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 毁灭性的；世界末日的
  Apocalypticmeans relating to the total destruction of something, especially of the world.
  1. ...the reformer's apocalyptic warnings that the nation was running out of natural resources.
     改革者发出的国家自然资源即将枯竭的末世警诫
• ADJ-GRADED 预示世界末日的；预示世界覆灭的；预示大灾难的
  Apocalypticmeans relating to or involving predictions about future disasters and the destruction of the world.
  1. ...a gloomy and apocalyptic vision of a world hastening towards ruin.
     未来世界加速迈向毁灭的暗淡而恐怖的景象

英英释义

adj

• prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom
  Synonym:apocalypticalrevelatory
• of or relating to an apocalypse

双语例句

• Behind these attitudes sits the assumption that apocalyptic thought belongs-or had better belong-to the extremities of human experience.
  支持这些看法的是一个假定：末日天启的想法属于，或者最好是属于人类宗教经验的极端范畴。
• Any suffering that you have, he says, chalk it up to the suffering that comes with the apocalyptic fire this is testing you, again just endure it.
  他说，你遭受的任何苦难，记到随天启之火而来的苦难的账上，这是在考验你，再一次忍受之。
• Jesus also preached the imminent end of the current era of history, or even the literal end of the world and in this sense he was an apocalyptic preacher.
  耶稣也鼓吹当前这个历史时期即将来临的终结，或者即使是这个世界的终结是字面的意思，但在这种情况下，他是一个启示性的先知。
• In other words, again Paul's quoting Jewish scripture to enforce his belief that at the end of time Gentiles would become people of God and this was common in Jewish apocalyptic idea.
  换言之，保罗再一次引用犹太经文加强他的信仰，到末日时，外邦人将成为上帝的子民，这在犹太天启观念中很普遍。
• The apocalyptic material there serves a different purpose than it did in Revelation and some other Christian and Jewish text.
  这里的天启内容和《启示录》里的，及其他基督教，和犹太教经文的意图不一样。
• All of the earliest followers of Jesus seemed to have been apocalyptic minded Jews, and that's the beginning of early Christianity.
  所有耶稣最早的信徒，似乎都是具有启示思维犹太人，这就是早期基督教的开始。
• Apocalyptic is one of those political kinds of forces in early Christianity, although certainly not the only one.
  天启是早期基督教那些政治类型，的力量之一，尽管显然不是唯一的。
• Caught between their anti-nuclear sentiments and their increasingly apocalyptic fears of global warming, environmentalists have mostly made the wrong choice.
  在反核情绪和对全球变暖日益加剧的末世恐惧之间进退两难的环保主义者，大多作出了错误的选择。
• The break up of the eurozone would be a crisis of apocalyptic proportions, going beyond our financial system.
  欧元区解体将是一场世界末日性质的危机，而不只是一个影响我们金融体系的问题。
• Yet the movie's depiction of the fallout from climate change stretches reputable science to apocalyptic proportions.
  然而，影片所描述的气候变化的后遗症把著名的科学理论夸张成天大的灾难。