| 释义 | doomsayer noun[ C ]
 mainly USuk /ˈduːm.seɪ.ər/ us /ˈduːm.seɪ.ɚ/
 someone who says bad things are going to happen: 灾难预言者,末日论者
 Despite the doomsayers, the Athenians delivered the Olympic Games when they said they would.尽管有末日论者的悲观言论,但雅典人还是如愿以偿地举办了奥运会。
 "I hate to be a doomsayer," he said, "but it's going to be hard to attract new business.""我不想乌鸦嘴,"他说:"但是真的很难吸引到新的业务。"
 The doomsayers think Indian industry will be wiped out.
 Unlike some doomsayers, he has done plenty of homework.
 Back then, people like him were considered doomsayers, a chorus of bleak voices prophesying a strange war to come.
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 People who make predictions
 clairvoyant
 diviner
 forecaster
 fortune teller
 futurist
 futurologist
 harbinger
 palmist
 prophet
 prophetess
 psychic
 seer
 sibyl
 soothsayer
 visionary
 
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