灭顶之灾 meaning in English
be buried beneath the waves; the calamity of being drowned [swamped]; in danger of being swamped; complete annihilation; disaster; be drowned; be swamped; disaster of being drowned; the woe of falling into a river 短语和例子
Examples
- He is finding it difficult to keep his head above water .
他发现很难避免灭顶之灾。 - The plane was shot down into the sea and people in it were drowned .
飞机被击落坠海，全机人员惨遭灭顶之灾。 - Only miserable creatures would survive such a catastrophe anyhow .
只有摇尾乞怜的家伙，才会经过这场灭顶之灾后幸存下来。 - Riccardo could see that we were going down the tube in a hurry unless something happened soon .
里卡多能够看出，除非迅速出现转化，我们很快要遭到灭顶之灾。 - He had seen woodrow wilson destroyed by congress's rejection of the league in 1919 .
他曾亲眼目睹伍德罗威尔逊就是因为国会在1919年拒绝他有关国联的主张，才遭灭顶之灾。