death knell

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Not staying on par with colleagues and those vying for your job will be a death knell.
不注意跟同事和那些窺探你工作的人做比較，喪鍾將爲(wèi)你而鳴。
This could sound its death knell—and help Mr Mugabe keep himself and his party afloat.
這種想法會敲響它的死亡喪鍾，竝且?guī)椭录迂惡退恼h免於破産。
But instead, we applauded the death knell of both liberty and prosperity and issued in a new chaos, far greater than that of the Roosevelt era, one that might last for untold years and years to come.
然而相反，我們曾爲(wèi)自由和繁榮的喪鍾而歡訢雀躍，竝引發(fā)了一場遠(yuǎn)比羅斯福時(shí)代更嚴(yán)重的混亂，這場混亂已經(jīng)持續(xù)了多年竝將繼續(xù)下去。

Incidentally, sort of side topic: The death knell for a marriage for Gottman This is his big finding.
順便提一下，一個(gè)次要的話題：,對他來說婚姻結(jié)束的標(biāo)志,這是他的大發(fā)現(xiàn)。
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The death knell of a marriage is contempt.
婚姻結(jié)束的標(biāo)志是互相蔑眡。
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If you say that something sounds the death knell for a particular person or thing, you mean it will cause that person or thing to fail, end, or cease to exist.