death knell

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death knell (複數 death knells)

  1. 丧钟
    • 1873, Thomas Hardy, 章號 25, 出自 A Pair of Blue Eyes:
      The sound was the stroke of a bell from the tower of East Endelstow Church. . . . The death-knell of an inhabitant of the eastern parish was being tolled.
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    • 1890, Ambrose Bierce, 章號 1, 出自 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge:
      Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death-knell.
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  2. 预示死亡或毁灭的征兆
    • 1901, Upton Sinclair, 章號 10, 出自 King Midas:
      The thought was a death-knell to Helen's last hope.
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    • 2004, Jamie James, "The Rise of a Musical Superpower," Time, 28 June:
      "It is the death knell of an orchestra if it doesn't have its own home," he says.
    • 2018, Michael Cottakis – LSE, “Colliding worlds: Donald Trump and the European Union”, 出自 LSE's blog[1]:
      A rupture would represent a death knell for the West and would harm the US worker.
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