Old English domes d?g, from domes, genitive of dom (see doom (n.)) + d?g "day" (see day (n.)).
In medieval England it was expected when the world's age reached 6,000 years from creation, which was thought to have been in 5200 B.C. Bede, c.720, complained of being pestered by rustici asking him how many years till the sixth millennium ended. There is no evidence for a general panic in the year 1000 C.E. Doomsday machine "bomb powerful enough to wipe out human life on earth" is from 1960.
雙語例句
1. This work will take me till doomsday.
這工作要花我一輩子的時間.
來自辭典例句
2. We're going to build the Doomsday Machine and conquer the world.
我們將建起世界末日時光機來征服整個世界.
來自電影對白
3. If they stop , the blimps switch to a doomsday program.
使得飛行船上的程式啟動那該怎么辦?
來自電影對白
4. But the financial system would remain a doomsday machine.
但金融體系仍將是一臺“末日機器”.
來自互聯網
5. More developers can not cross the land Doomsday " high - voltage wire ? "