doomsayers

doomsayers

美 [ˈdumseɪər] 　英 [ˈduːmˌseɪə(r)]

• n.预言灾难者
• 网络凶事预示者；凶事预言者；末日论者

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英汉解释

n.

1. 预言灾难者

英英解释

n.	1. someone who always says that bad things will happen

例句

The doomsayers always warn that Nostradamus said the world was going to end and he NEVER GOT ANYTHING WRONG.

那些预言家总是警告说诺查丹姆斯说世界将会灭亡，他的语言从来都没错过。

Doomsayers warn that it is only a matter of time before excess capacity leads to a wave of bankruptcies and sour loans.

唱衰者警告称，产能过剩将会导致企业破产及坏账飙升，这只不过是时间问题。

Interesting is how the doomsayers ' predictions never seem to come true.

有趣的是，末日预言家们的预言似乎从来没有实现过。

President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy said the doomsayers are wrong.

欧盟主席范龙佩说，那些唱衰欧盟和欧元的人错了。

Go much farther back in time and a lot of what those aforementioned doomsayers have been saying takes on more than a glimmer of truth.

追溯到更久远一点的时代，上述提及的那些预言者们向世人展示的不仅仅是真理的光芒。

if you listen to the professional doomsayers, they will tell you that's barely the half of it.

如果你听职业祭司的话，他们会告诉你事情多半如此。

Doomsayers worry that the world has escaped from the financial frying pan into a fiscal fire.

悲观人士担心，世界好容易脱离了金融煎锅，又跳入了财政大火。

With more than three months to polling day, there may still be time for the president's party to confound the doomsayers.

在距离投票日还有三个多月的时候，也许总统先生的党派还有时间来打破吉布斯的不祥之言。

Over-borrowing and over-investment had artificially boosted growth, it was argued; doomsayers predicted a decade of lost growth.

他们认为过度借债和投资表面上刺激了经济的增长。预言家悲观预测亚洲经济将迎来为期十年的衰退期。

Indeed, the Pope argues against a literal interpretation of the biblical book so often used by doomsayers to herald the end of the world.

事实上，教宗认为对一个常常被doomsayers用来预示着世界末日的字面解释圣经的书。

It has become a standard doomsayers' prediction that the civil and regional wars of the future will be over water rather than oil.

这已成为一个灾难预言者的标准预言：未来内战或地区战争争夺的目标将是水，而不是石油。

Some of the most fervent and convincing doomsayers, after all, are scientists.

那些最狂热最有说服力的末日论者中有一部分正是科学家。

COUPLE of years ago, those who forecast that oil would reach $100 a barrel were seen either as doomsayers or publicity-seekers.

几年以前，有些人预测油价会突破100美元每桶，那时我们觉得这些人是危言耸听。

The doomsayers are half right: Mr Putin's Russia is dangerous. However, this is as yet very far from being a new cold war.

不过这些凶相预言者只对了一半：普京的俄罗斯是危险，但是还远未达到一场新冷战的程度。

The doomsayers, however, will be disappointed. Japan is well enough run to defy their most dire predictions.

不过，宣称日本没救了的人将会感到失望——日本的运行状况足够良好，可以驳斥他们最悲观的预测。

Yet when disaster strikes, doomsayers do not get to crow.

但当灾难真得袭来时，乌鸦嘴们不再聒噪。

But when the market is going up, no one cares about the doomsayers.

但当市场上涨时，没人把那些灾难预言家的话当回事。

In the 1980s, doomsayers had predicted that the fax machine would push the profession into oblivion.

在上世纪八十年代，一些乌鸦嘴曾宣称传真机将会使得这个职业被人遗忘。

Backed by data showing a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy, doomsayers have taken center stage.

由于资料显示世界第二大经济的增速减缓，悲观论者又卷土重来了。

Doomsayers predicted a decade of lost growth, as in Latin America after its 1980s debt crisis.

灾难预言者们早已预言了10年的经济衰退期，就像拉丁美洲在80年代深陷债务危机一样。

Fiscal default is nigh, insist the doomsayers: repent and retrench before it is too late.

灾难预言者坚持认为，政府违约就在眼前：赶紧忏悔和缩减开支吧，否则就太晚了。

The doomsayers and pessimists have been wrong every time they have predicted the Chinese economy's pending demise.

每次，那些末日论调者和悲观主义者预计中国经济即将坠入深渊，结果每次都抽自己嘴巴。

And anyway I think the doomsayers have got it wrong, more often than not, but this is a great reminder.

无论如何，我认为灾难预言者多半是错的，但是这是一个需要引起注意的提醒。