| 单词 |
untergang |
| 释义 |
‖ untergang|ˈʊntərgaŋ| [Ger., = decline, downfall.] An irreversible decline, esp. leading to the destruction of culture or civilization.
1938L. MacNeice I crossed Minch ix. 133 The Untergang, the collapse of civilisation. 1962Listener 12 July 51/2 There were times when Zarathustra—and, I believe, Nietzsche himself—longed for the Untergang, the going down, the descent, among the many, for the many, into death. 1965New Statesman 30 July 166/1 The rooms and houses seemed on a depressingly small scale for a civilisation which it had always pleased me to think of as suffering the disease of gigantism which afflicts societies in full untergang. |
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