apocalypse
n. 启示, 天启
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1.
A revealing, especially a prophecy of, or the unfolding of, supernatural events.
The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall.
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2.
A huge disaster; a cataclysmic event; destruction or ruin of large scope and scale.
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Near-synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, holocaust; armageddon, doomsday, end times, eschaton, judgement day, judgment day
A nuclear apocalypse would have been possible if tensions went out of control during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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3.
The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
世界末日
宗教Meronyms: Final Judgment, Judgment Day, judgement day, judgment day
Near-synonym: Ragnarok
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The Book of Revelation.
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To reveal.
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To dwell on a huge disaster one expects to take place.
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To bring about (a huge disaster).
及物/不及物 非正式 罕用
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From Middle English apocalips, from Latin apocalypsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”, literally “uncovering”), from ἀποκαλύπτω (apokalúptō, “to reveal”), from ἀπό (apó, “back, away from”) + καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover”), + -σις (-sis, suffix forming nouns). The sense evolution to "catastrophe, end of the world" stems from the depiction of such events in the biblical Book of Revelation, also called the Apocalypse of (i.e. Revelation to) John. The verb is from the noun and, in sense 1, a semantic loan from the etymonic Ancient Greek verb ἀποκαλύπτω (apokalúptō, “to reveal”).
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