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
a BM
academic credit
accessory toe
Auchel
balanced draught
Bayanhongor Aymag
be let in on the ground floor
bearded darnel
bitonic
bossism
botanique
Burka Darro
catcher for hydraulic pump
central interruptregister
Chandeleur Sound
chuches
cloud detection radar
coiled tube
commissioner expenditures
concolumn
corrective lens
Cuminestown
cystamine disulfoxide
dahmer
denneys
dried pupa
DVD-ROM Drives
eroding stress
extraction cascade
fairy shrimp
field-glasses
file position
fishing-tubes
fission rockets
gallabiyeh
geneticization
Gigartinales
Han-sur-Lesse
he-sea point
high accuracy formula
honeycombing
hydroid
iceton
insulated boots
interface control document
intracranial hemorrhage
irreverents
janthinomyia felderi
Jean Charles
kerrie
Klein-Mil'man theorem
kreisler
launching complex
leprechaun
lig. hyothyreoideum medium
M.S.T.
machine coating
mcmenamins
mercury diffusion pump
micropegmatites
mil domain
narver
Netware Novell
non-aspirin
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Satellite Communications
oil wash
oil-circulating cooling
Pacific Islander
Pakisan
paleaceous receptacle
partial-scan television camera
perturbed structure
pre-class
preconising
prementum
price fluctuations
proximeter
pseudo-continuous zone refining
pseudomutation
rupert bear
scooping out
self-pulsating laser diode
semibold
shipboard power cable
simultaneous operation computer
single pulse shock tube
soft-rayed
streptidine kinase
strong silver proteins
Stórafjall
subnet dependent convergence protocol
sulfur attack
surveyorships
territorialised
tfes
triverbal
under-feature
unidirectional antenna
web access
wireless internet access
zucchero