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
- The day of reckoning has been postponed yet again.
算总账的日子再一次推迟了。 - A verifiable market-based trigger makes it impossible for a regulator to delay the day of reckoning.
一个基于市场的可核实的触发条件，令监管机构不可能再推迟摊牌的时间。 - You're enjoying yourself now, but a day of reckoning will come.
别看你现在逍遥，将来会遭报应的。 - I thought my day of reckoning with China's grip on the feet of America's children was still months away.
我原以为美国小孩与中国鞋子这个难题在几个月才会出现。 - But that only delayed the day of reckoning.
但这只能推迟摊牌的时间。 - But cheap goods from China – coupled with US monetary and fiscal policies that were locked into pro-growth settings – postponed the day of reckoning.
但来自中国的廉价商品，加上美国坚定的促增长货币和财政政策，推迟了清算日的到来。 - We all know the day of reckoning is coming, and start to cut back on spending to a degree, but it doesn't really hit home until the checks stop coming in.
我们都知道算帐的那一天正日益临近、我们也开始逐步收紧开支，但是直到真的再无支票入帐时我们才真正意识到自己没有收入了。 - 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。 - 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？