“The sky is falling. The sky is falling.”“ Most of us know the story of ”“Chicken Little,”“ who ran around warning the barnyard of impending doom . ”

“天要塌下来了,天要塌下来了。”很多人都知道“小鸡的故事”,小鸡总是围着谷仓转,警告即将到来的厄运。

And Chicken Littles are effective because everyone of us is a little chicken. It often takes great courage to not let rumors and talk of doom and gloom affect your doubts and fears.

“小鸡”们的说法很有影响力,并在我们每个人的心中引起共鸣。因此,我们常常需要极大的勇气,不让谣言和杞人忧天式的怀疑加剧我们的恐惧心理和对自己的疑虑。

to [till] the crack of doom

(1)直到世界末日;(2)无休无止地

the last trump (=the trump of doom )

(基督教)最后审判日的号声

one’s doom is sealed doom

(某人的)命运已经注定, 注定灭亡

Perhaps the most notorious stanza of The Day of Doom is the one in which God settles the fate of those who, dying in infancy, “never had good or bad effected personally”

《判决日》中最拙劣的一节，也许是上帝对那些“没有受过善恶薰染的”夭折者的判决。

the day of doom (=doomsday)

【宗】最后审判日, 世界末日

owen thought he could see Cowperwood’s approaching doom quite plainly

奥文认为他能够很明白地看出柯帕乌迫在眉睫的

Pessimist tells us that the family as we know it is doom .

悲观主义者告诉我们说，我们现在的这种家庭注定要崩溃。

This week, as OPEC geared itself up for its birthday feast, Mr. Yamani surfaced as Banquo’s ghost, complete with doom-laden predictions. “OPEC” he said, “has a very short memory.”

本周当欧佩克在忙于准备其生日盛宴时，亚马尼又象班柯的幽灵那样出现了。他的的预言似乎带着一种宿命的色彩:“欧佩克未免太健忘了。”

The note to be sounded was brevity, mystery, and a foretaste of impending doom for Germany

措辞应当简短、神秘，而且要预示德国即将灭亡。

The enemy was approaching their doom .

敌人已快完蛋了。

The dictator met his doom after ten years of rule.

独裁者统治了十年终于完蛋了。

A sense of impending doom .

对即将到来的厄运的预感

There was no longer any question about the doom the inquisition had prepared for me

对宗教法庭给我安排好的归宿已经不再有任何疑问了。

The judge pronounced the murder’s doom .

法官宣判杀人犯的罪刑

seek one’s doom like moths flying into the fire

飞蛾扑火，自取灭亡

The announcer, with rich dramatic doom in his voice, spoke words that arrested her pen

广播员的洪亮清晰和富有感情的声音，使她不由得停下笔。

The Kuomintang is so impotent that no amount of help can save it from inevitable doom ; the U.S. imperialists are losing grip over things and feel helpless

国民党是那样的不行，无论帮它多少总是命定地完蛋了，他们不能控制了，他们无可奈何了。

Hester’s strong, calm, steadfastly enduring spirit almost sank, at last, on beholding this dark and grim countenance of an inevitable doom ,

海丝特那种坚强、镇定、持久不变的精神,在终于看到那不可避免的命运的阴森面目之后,几乎垮了

send a man to his doom

将一人处死.

Her own dress was of the coarsest materials and the most sombre hue; with only that one ornament-the scarlet letter-which it was her doom to wear.

她自己的衣裙用的是最祖糙的料子和最晦暗的颜色,上面只有一件饰物,就是那红字--那是她注定非戴不可的。

Hopefully, but a moment ago, as Hester had spoken of drowning it in the deep sea, there was a sense of inevitable doom upon her, as she thus received back this deadly symbol from the hand of fate.

仅仅片刻之前,海丝特还满怀希望地谈到要把红字沉进深深的海底,但当她从命运之神的手中重新接过这死一般的象征时,就感到一种难以避免的阴沉笼罩着她。

Despite two decades of doom-and-gloom media coverage of the Province and its sectarian Trouble, he sees unmistakable signs of prosperity

尽管这20年来，新闻媒介对该省及其教派间冲突的报道都是“死亡黑暗”，他却清楚地看到一派繁荣的景象。

But, under the leaden infliction which it was her doom to endure, she felt, at moments, as if she must needs shriek out with the full power of her lungs, and cast herself from the scaffold down upon the ground, or else go mad at once.

可是,在她注定要忍受的这种沉闷的打击之下,她时时感到要鼓尼胸腔中的全部力量来尖声呼号,并从刑台上翻到地面,否则,她会立刻发疯的。

Madness has come upon you, and your doom is here!

你们已受到疯狂的蹂躏，你们的末日已经来临。

There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom , which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime;

确实有一种天数，一种具有冥冥之力的如此不可抗拒和难以避免的感情，迫使人们象幽灵般出汲并滞留在发生过为他终生增色添辉、引人瞩目的重大事件的地方

Brief and powerless is Man’s life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

人的生命短暂而脆弱。不可避免的死亡虽然缓慢却一定会降临他及他的同类，阴森而毫不怜惜。

If what you say is accurate, Roosevelt is pronouncing a long-range doom on all free men

如果你说的话没错，罗斯福是在对全体自由人宣布长期的厄运。

But even on windless days the air always smelt of something under-earth: sulphur, iron, coal, or acid. And even on the Christmas roses the smuts settled persistently, incredible, like black manna from the skies of doom .

甚至无风的时候，空气里也带着一种地窖下的什么恶味。甚至在毛黄花上，也铺着一层煤灰，好象是恶天降下的黑甘露。

doom to

vt.注定,一定会

doom palm

ph.1. 【植】埃及姜果棕

day of doom

世界末日, 上帝最后审判日

Doom erasure

(转换语法)杜姆削除

the crack of doom

n.最后审判日的雷声(世界末日)

a prophet of doom

说丧气话的人