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一、详细释义：
n.
厄运，不幸，（法律宣告判决）死亡 [U]
例句：
The dictator met his doom after ten years of rule.
独裁者统治了十年终于完蛋了。
例句：
It isn't the crack of doom.
还不是世界末日。
v.
使…在劫难逃，注定失败（或遭殃，死亡等）[T]
例句：
That argument doomed their marriage to failure.
那次争吵使他们的婚姻注定要失败。
例句：
The project was doomed to failure.
这工程注定失败。
二、词义辨析：
destiny,fate,lot,doom,luck,fortune
这些名词均有“命运”或“运气”之意。destiny普通用词，侧重预先注定的命运，对未来命运的美好憧憬。fate较庄严用词，多指不幸的命运，暗示不可避免，令人畏惧和人的意志无法改变，宿命论色彩较浓。 lot多指偶然的运气或终身遭受的不幸命运。doom指最终的，常常是灾难性或毁灭性的命运，隐含不可避免的意味。luck普通日常用词，指好的或坏的运气，尤多指好运气，有时也指成功或愉快的结局。fortune普通用词，指由机会或运气来决定的一种命运，如暗示一种比fate好的运气或一种愉快的未来。
三、相关短语：
crack of doom
世界末日的霹雳
四、参考例句：
His doom is as yet unsealed.
还未公布对他的判决。
The gloom and doom is widespread.
阴云笼罩。
A sense of impending doom came upon all of us.
我们所有人都有一种大难临头的感觉。
The dictator met his doom after ten years of rule.
独裁者统治了十年终於完蛋了。
The Middle East is no stranger to doom and gloom.
厄运与忧郁对于中东，一点儿也不陌生。
If we had listened to the prophets of doom, we would never have started the project.
要是我们听信那些悲观者的论调，那工程就永远不可能上马。
I don't want to give you the impression that it's all doom and gloom.
我不想让大家觉得前景黯淡。
A poor first impression will doom even the best idea to failure.
第一印象不好，就算最好的点子也注定要失败。
Doom and gloom seem to incubate a hunger for the blackest of humour.
悲观和沮丧似乎在酝酿一种饥饿的黑色幽默。
Still can't squelch the feeling of impending doom on Monday Morning Eve
还是无法挥去周日晚上的焦躁感？
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