汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 灭顶
灭顶 (滅頂)
to be drowned (figurative and literal)
〈动〉水漫过头顶,指淹死:~之灾(指致命的灾祸)。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

高雄县甲仙乡小林村甚至有恐全村惨遭灭顶

A remote village in Kaohsiung was feared fully sudmerged by flood-created lake burst.

因为造纸利润极大而使贝加尔湖将现灭顶灾难值得吗?

Is it worth submerging Lake Baikal in disaster because the profit of papermaking is enormous?

灭顶灾难降临,大地被悲伤覆盖,他们却用坚强和微笑,震撼我们。

When Mieding disaster fell, the land covered by grief, they used a strong and smiling, shook us.

上周,英国石油公司的‘灭顶计划’即,通过向井填泥土来堵漏的计划宣告失败。

Last week it failed in its attempt to close the well with a “top kill” that filled it with mud.

更可怕的是,如果为了开辟新的农田而继续分批次地滥砍乱伐,全球气候变暖就将以灭顶之势加速。

What is more, if we continue wholesale deforestation just to generate new farmland, global warming will accelerate at an even more catastrophic rate.