橘子朗文词典

death knell

D 开头单词

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

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英汉例句

    双语例句

  • 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。

    • 原声例句

  • 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。
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  • The death knell of a marriage is contempt.
    婚姻结束的标志是互相蔑视。
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    • 权威例句

  • Negative briefing documents from FDA staff hardly represent a death knell for a drug.
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  • What is a boon to us consumers is a death knell for computer companies.
    FORBES: Malone's musing

词组短语

    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

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • a warning of the end of something

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • 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.