death knell

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The tolling of a bell announcing death.
    — 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.
  2. A marker, sign or omen foretelling the imminent end, death or destruction of something. broadly
    — The thought was a death-knell to Helen's last hope, and she sank down, quite overcome;[…]

词形变化

death knells plural death-knell alternative
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