汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 在劫难逃
zài jié nán táo
在劫难逃 (在劫難逃)
If you're doomed, there's no escape. / impossible to escape one's doom / There is no escape from one's fate. / What is destined cannot be avoided.
The old superstitious people believed that the destined disaster was inevitable / At present, it is also used to refer to certain disasters that are inevitable
听天由命 死路一条 山穷水尽 束手待毙 坐以待毙
在 zài 劫 jié 难 (難) nán/nàn 逃 táo
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

然而这片森林大多在劫难逃。

Yet much of this forest is doomed.

最开始，这个理论似乎在劫难逃。

At first, the theory seemed doomed.

潮来潮去、随波逐流、载沉载浮、在劫难逃。

The moist incoming tide goes, to drift with the current, carries sinks carries floats, is doomed.

其他的国外媒体可能也在劫难逃。

Other foreign media may be in the firing line.

年轻人死得不少，而年迈者是在劫难逃。

Of young men die many, of old men escape not any.

他用左手调了调铐在右手上的钢圈，这钢圈把他和这列在劫难逃的人连为一体。

With his left hand, he adjusted the loop of steel that cuffed his right hand to the line of doomed men.

报纸业还是在劫难逃，其中最明显的标志就是：过去一贯为他们所评论的政客们，如今却为其感到惋惜。

PERHAPS the surest sign that newspapers are doomed is that politicians, so often their targets, are beginning to feel sorry for them.

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