doom: [OE] Doom derives ultimately from *dō-, the Germanic base from which the verb do comes. This originally meant ‘put, place’, and so Germanic *dōmaz signified literally ‘that which is put’. By the time it reached Old English as dōm a more concrete sense ‘law, decree, judgment’ had developed (this lies behind the compound doomsday ‘day of judgment’ [OE], whose early Middle English spelling has been preserved in Domesday book). The modern sense ‘(evil) fate’ first appeared in the 14th century. => deem, do
doom (n.)
Old English dom "law, judgment, condemnation," from Proto-Germanic *domaz (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian dom, Old Norse domr, Old High German tuom, Gothic doms "judgment, decree"), from PIE root *dhe- "to set, place, put, do" (cognates: Sanskrit dhaman- "law," Greek themis "law," Lithuanian dome "attention;" see factitious). A book of laws in Old English was a dombec. Modern sense of "fate, ruin, destruction" is c. 1600, from the finality of the Christian Judgment Day.
doom (v.)
late 14c., from doom (n.). Related: Doomed; dooming.
实用例句
1. Why are people so full of gloom and doom?
为什么人们如此沮丧悲观？
来自柯林斯例句
2. 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。
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3. A sense of imminent doom was inescapable.
一种即将来临的毁灭感无可逃避。
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4. to meet your doom
死亡
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5. The report on our economic situation is full of doom and gloom.
