汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 灭顶之灾
灭顶之灾 (滅頂之災)
catastrophe / great calamity / The Happening(film)
灭顶 Water overflows overhead / Refers to being drowned in water / Metaphor of a devastating disaster
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

森林要遭灭顶之灾的传闻已是危言耸听了。

News of the death of forests appears to have been greatly exaggerated.

在那儿,探险队险遭灭顶之灾。他们的船撞上了。

Reef. There the expedition nearly ended in disaster. The ship struck a coral.

无法控制的山火燃遍俄罗斯的欧洲区,更使农民雪上加霜,田地面临灭顶之灾

An uncontrollable wave of wildfires sweeping across European Russia is adding to farmers' woes, threatening their land with destruction.

很多企业也都在自己对手遭遇灭顶之灾的时候伸出过援手,因为他们懂得什么叫唇亡齿寒。

A lot of enterprises in all their opponents by crowning calamity when helped by, because they know what if the lips are gone.

对于河北乐亭和昌黎的养虾户而言,“蓬莱19-3油田溢油事故”带给他们的可能是灭顶之灾

The oil spills in Penglai 19-3 oilfield may put shrimp farmers in Laoting and Changli of Hebei into a precarious state.

这种关系的消极面体现在一方会害怕得罪拥有至高权利的另一方,从而排斥、抛弃或灭顶之灾

Its negative is the horror of being excluded from authorisation, of abandonment or of destruction by an offended and supremely powerful authority.

这的确值得关注,因为自2002年起,杂志出版业就开始步履维艰,许多分析家都断定纸媒难逃灭顶之灾

This is noteworthy because the magazine business has been in a funk since 2002, and many analysts have concluded that the death of print is inevitable.

2004年的海啸几乎摧毁了这个国家,造成超过3.0万斯里兰卡人丧生也使得许多沿海社区遭受了灭顶之灾

The country was also devastated by the 2004 tsunami, which killed more than 30,000 Sri Lankans and wiped out many coastal communities.