death knell
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編輯death knell (複數 death knells)
- 喪鐘
- 1873, Thomas Hardy, 章號 25, 出自 A Pair of Blue Eyes:
- 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.
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- 1890, Ambrose Bierce, 章號 1, 出自 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge:
- Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death-knell.
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- 預示死亡或毀滅的徵兆
- 1901, Upton Sinclair, 章號 10, 出自 King Midas:
- The thought was a death-knell to Helen's last hope.
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- 2004, Jamie James, "The Rise of a Musical Superpower," Time, 28 June:
- "It is the death knell of an orchestra if it doesn't have its own home," he says.