death knell

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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.
  FORBES: Biotech's Big Losers
• What is a boon to us consumers is a death knell for computer companies.
  FORBES: Malone's musing

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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

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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.

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