音标:['kætәklizm] ;
n. 大洪水, 地震, (社会政治的)大变动
[医] 渗出, 渗液, 猝变, 聚变
n a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
n an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
词型变化:名词复数形式 : cataclysms
考试类型:[托福/GRE]
词性分布:
名词100%

cataclysm的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. The cataclysm flooded the entire valley.洪水淹没了整个山谷。
  2. A cataclysm caused by the dam breaking.一场因水坝破裂所造成的大洪水。
  3. No cataclysm has desolated the whole world.没有任何激变曾使整个世界变成荒芜。
  4. World War II was a cataclysm for all of Europe.第二次世界大战对整个欧洲是一大剧变。
  5. The Great Depression was an economic cataclysm on a scale hard to imagine.大萧条是一场规模难以想像的经济灾难。
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学英语单词
abhidharmika
aerobicising
AES (Auger electron spectroscopy)
African lion hound
Asiatic Society of Bengal
assembly systems
assotor
avalanche of loose snow
baby killers
be insensible of
benedicites
bounded representation
bufonidaes
bumbye
Cameron County
carbon deposition
carboxyhaemoglobins
caseids
cathode layer
Chamerion
cold-starting ability
concessioners
connectionless session
crepe finish
cri du chat
Cross Lake
cup chuck
decosahexaenoic acid
decriminalised
descruotuve statu statistical method
drug interactions
Eaton County
ediction
elaida
electric feed water pump
environmental plasma
enzyme pratein
equivalent series resistance
extort from
fabricare
fresh evidence
fujikura
full power shifting
G-F transformation
gas consumption rate
gross morphology of bacteria
head storage
heparin pump
hypercholesterolemias
intake energy
interstitial gland
John Haldane
KFA (Kernforschungszentrum Julich)
Kvitnes
Köpingsvik
land-development
lethal synthesis
liquid flow measurement calibration facility
m. soleus
metal mold interface
micropexophagy
mirror image in time path
multi-cavity molding die
multiplicative variation
negative offset steering
neriifolin
Nestorianisms
nozzle carrier
Ob, Gulf of
one's ears ring
one-way classification
Onezhskiy Poluostrov
open application environment
OpenGL ES
oxytetracyclines
Pallister-Hall syndrome
pekar
phenolic laminate
poach trespass on someone's preserves
Post and Mail Reply
posterior scrotal vein
pseudopapillary
purpura cryoglobulinemia
radar equipment
radhakrishnaite
reactive power loading
resistance oscillation
secondary role
serous pleurisy
Shivaist
singed cat
sintered nickel
space tracking laser beacon
supply bridge
sybra botelensis
taper pipe tap
teplitz
threnody
triplener
trucking rigs
unbudded
unhoard