汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 臨頭
臨頭 (临头)
to befall / to be imminent
落到头上。多指不幸的事情或祸患。 犹当头。 犹临了﹐到头。
() lín () tóu/tou
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

船到江心补漏迟,事故临头后悔晚。

But it's too late to mend the ship, the accident happen later regret.

恶运临头后,方知幸运贵。

Misfortunes tells us what fortune is.

他一直有祸事临头的预感。

He had a presentiment of trouble coming.

如果没有集体的觉醒,大祸即将临头

"Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come," he warns.

你不能再看她了,大祸就要临头了。

You must not look at her... Something terrible may happen.

几个星期来,我一直感到大祸即将临头

For weeks I have had a feeling of impending disaster.

他们早已被死到临头的想法吓昏了。

They were terrorized and discoloured by the thought of an approaching death.

“很好!”贝拉特里克斯斜眼一瞥,“德拉科,去捡起来!黑魔王要来了,哈利·波特!你死到临头了!”

"Good! " she leered. "Draco, pick them up! The Dark Lord is coming, Harry Potter! Your death approaches! "

于是那鱼闹腾起来,尽管死到临头了,它仍从水中高高跳起,把它那惊人的长度和宽度,它的力量和美,全都暴露无遗。

Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty.

这还意味着你努力到吐血去完成的漂亮的东西,最后会被那些哪怕是死到临头也不会为自己写一行代码的人扔进垃圾桶,搅成稀烂,最后埋进土里。

It means sweating blood through the forehead to do sound work only to have it trashed, mangled, or buried by people who couldn't write a line of code to save their lives.