| 单词 | doom |
| 释义 | doom I. 1. a. b. 2. obsolete a. b. < with … unerring doom he sees what is — John Dryden > 3. a. < whose doom discording neighbors sought — Sir Walter Scott > < there are no such things as rules or principles: there are only isolated dooms — B.N.Cardozo > especially < the inspired teaching of the doom of men to excruciation in endlessness — George Meredith > < the guilty person who excessively fears death, anticipating it as a punishment and unconsciously acknowledging the justice of such a doom can now be reassured — Weston La Barre > b. < we thought the day of doom had come > c. obsolete 4. archaic < awaiting the opening of the doom > 5. a. < they were glad he was going West at once, to fulfill his doom where they would not be onlookers — Willa Cather > < luminous organs for attracting other creatures to their doom — J.L.B.Smith > b. < feverish enterprise, as if everyone was aware of approaching doom and was in a hurry to get somewhere before the thunderbolt fell — Harrison Smith > < the sense of doom that infects many contemporary poets — C.I.Glicksberg > c. < his proud spirit sank under the doom of prison life — Thomas Barbour > Synonyms: see fate II. transitive verb 1. archaic 2. < absolves the just and dooms the guilty souls — John Dryden > < sometimes a doomed book published in England reaches the Irish market in large quantities ahead of the censorship ban — Paul Blanshard > 3. archaic < have I tongue to doom my brother's death — Shakespeare > 4. a. < some people will say that the world dooms itself to war because man is still aggressive at heart — J.B.Priestley > < pity for one inexorably doomed to die for his people at the hands of a brutal mob — Alan Paton & Liston Pope > < I was of those doomed to imperfect achievement — W.B.Yeats > < its vitality was doomed to wane before the rivalry of the vernacular tongue — H.O.Taylor > b. < if the blowoff comes it may forever doom the efforts of Europe to undo peacefully the colonial harm she has done — Emory Ross > < life is a risk and all individual plans precarious, all human achievements transient, and all individual lives doomed — Irwin Edman > < once the horrors that lay in the background of Calvinism were disclosed to common view, the system was doomed — V.L.Parrington > < experiments which were from the outset plainly doomed — Osbert Sitwell > 5. archaic intransitive verb archaic < who's to doom when the judge himself is dragged to the bar — Herman Melville > |
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