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    Armageddon

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++Ar·ma·ged·don /ˌɑːməˈɡedn $ ˌɑːr-/ noun [singular, uncountable]  DESTROYa terrible battle that will destroy the world 〔会毁灭世界的〕大决战 a nuclear Armageddon 核大战
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    Armageddon• Could the future see a species capable of engaging in the defeat of the law of entropy in a final Armageddon?• Usually these reports concentrate on prophecies of a forthcoming Armageddon but many also describe a dire contemporary situation.• We joke about it, but most of us are slaves to every medical Armageddon story that comes along.• Montana officials have responded to Mrs Prophet's ideas of Armageddon like battle-hardened bureaucrats.• Most people regarded adolescence as some kind of Armageddon, a battle one was sure to lose.    Origin Armageddon (1800-1900) Greek place of a great battle at the end of the world, described in the Bible
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    Armageddon
    Ar‧ma‧ged‧don /ˌɑːməˈɡedn $ ˌɑːr-/ noun [singular, uncountable]
     Date: 1800-1900
     Language: Greek
     Origin: place of a great battle at the end of the world, described in the Bible
    a terrible battle that will destroy the world:
        a nuclear Armageddon


    Ar·ma·ged·donBrE /ˌɑːməˈɡedn/ 🔊NAmE /ˌɑːrməˈɡedn/ 🔊 noun [singular, uncountable] (in the Bible 《圣经》) a battle between good and evil at the end of the world 世界末日的善恶大决战a terrible war that could destroy the world （足以毁灭世界的）大决战