day of reckoning
英 [deɪ ɒv ˈrekənɪŋ]
美 [deɪ əv ˈrekənɪŋ]
n. 清算之时;报应到来的日子
柯林斯词典
- N-SING 清算之时;报应到来的日子
If someone talks about theday of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.- The day of reckoning is coming for the water company directors.
跟自来水公司的主管们算账的日子就要到来了。
- The day of reckoning is coming for the water company directors.
英英释义
noun
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
- everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it
- that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world
- (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
双语例句
- How can they not feel under pressure throughout college to prepare for this day of reckoning?
为准备迎接这一结账之日，他们又怎能不在整个大学期间感到处在压力之下呢？ - Cheap money and capital flows fuel growth booms in the short run. But the day of reckoning always comes: those that borrow most suffer the biggest growth collapses from sudden stops of capital.
短期内廉价货币和资金流动可以刺激增长，但最后审判日注定会到来：资金骤停会让举债最多的国家遭遇最严重的增长崩溃。 - The risk, however, is this simply delays the day of reckoning.
但问题是，这么做只是推迟了最终清算日的到来。 - Marc Faber, of the "Gloom, Boom& Doom" newsletter, was also among those calling for a day of reckoning in China's housing market last year.
马克法•伯尔，创立“忧郁，繁荣与死亡”时事通讯，也是去年要求对中国房地产市场进行清算的那些人中的一个。 - The day of reckoning will come when the high economic growth rate finally falters.
当经济高速增长最终难以为继时，灾难就将来临。 - What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar?
到降罚的日子，有灾祸从远方临到，那时，你们怎样行呢？ - The day of reckoning had not yet come for him.
他遭报应的日子还没有来到。 - In China, projects like the South-North Water Diversion Project just delay the day of reckoning.
在中国，像南水北调这样的工程项目只能推迟算总帐的日子。 - But that only delayed the day of reckoning.
但这只能推迟摊牌的时间。 - What, though, of the fearful Day of Reckoning?
但是，什么是可怕的审判日？