cataclysm
n. 大洪水；地震；(社会政治的)大变动
形容词：cataclysmic
近义词：disaster，eruption，catastrophe，calamity，tragedy，upheaval，debacle，
英英释义
Noun
- a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;
"the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity" "the earthquake was a disaster"
例句
用作名词(n.)
- The cataclysm flooded the entire valley.洪水淹没了整个山谷。
- A cataclysm caused by the dam breaking.一场因水坝破裂所造成的大洪水。
- No cataclysm has desolated the whole world.没有任何激变曾使整个世界变成荒芜。
- 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。
- 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。