day of reckoning

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Now comes the day of reckoning.
现在，最后审判日来了。
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said yesterday that the day of reckoning is here.
加州州长阿诺·施瓦辛格昨天说“现在是清算的日子了。”
In this environment, whether annual health care costs rise or fall by 1% or even 5% is irrelevant — all we do is move the day of reckoning less than 1 year closer or farther away.
在这种环境下，无论是每年的卫生保健费用上升或下降1％甚至5％都是无关紧要的-我们所能做的便是变动计算天数不到1年或更远一点。

(SAYING) But Ochoa admits that continued oil revenues, even if insufficient to cover mounting government expenditures, will allow President Chavez to put off, any day of reckoning that may loom ahead.

The financial crisis that began to unfold three years ago was our inevitable day of reckoning.
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The day of reckoning will come when the Fed starts to tighten, according to Schiff.
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Unfortunately, the compromise simply postpones the day of reckoning for all three issues until March.
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a time when the effect of a past mistake is experienced or when a crime is punished

If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.