doom /duːm/ CET6 TEM4 ( dooming, doomed, dooms )

• 1. 

  N-UNCOUNT Doom is a terrible future state or event which you cannot prevent. 厄运

  例：

  ...his warnings of impending doom.

  …他对即将到来的厄运发出的警告。

• 2. 

  N-UNCOUNT If you have a sense or feeling of doom, you feel that things are going very badly and are likely to get even worse. 悲观

  例：

  Why are people so full of gloom and doom?

  人们的心里为什么满是悲观失望？

• 3. 

  V-T If a fact or event dooms someone or something to a particular fate, it makes certain that they are going to suffer in some way. 注定

  例：

  That argument was the turning point for their marriage, and the one which doomed it to failure.

  那次争吵是他们婚姻的一个转折点，它注定了他们婚姻的失败。