Word · Frequency #19176
doomed
注定死亡的人
people who are destined to die soon
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people who are destined to die soon
注定很快死去的人们；必死之人
注定很快死去的人们；必死之人
In use
The firefighters risked their lives to rescue the doomed from the burning building.
In the war, many soldiers felt they were among the doomed.
The captain stayed with the ship, knowing he would join the doomed.
be doomed to do sth
常用于表示不可避免的失败或死亡。
The expedition was doomed to fail.
这次探险注定失败。
be doomed
单独使用，后常接原因或说明。
He was doomed from the start.
他从一开始就注定失败。
the doomed
定冠词+形容词表示一类人，需用复数意义。
The captain tried to save the doomed.
船长试图拯救那些注定要死的人。
Common mistakes
He is doomed.He is a doomed man.
学生误将doomed当作形容词直接用作表语，但实际上doomed是名词，不能单独作表语，需要冠词和名词。
The doomed is waiting.The doomed are waiting.
学生误将doomed当作单数名词，但doomed是集体名词，表示一群人，谓语动词应用复数。
Connections
Collocations
- the doomed
- 注定死亡的人们
- The rescue team could not save the doomed.救援队无法拯救那些注定要死的人。
- among the doomed
- 在必死者之中
- He found himself among the doomed.他发现自己身处必死者之中。
- one of the doomed
- 必死者中的一员
- She knew she was one of the doomed.她知道自己是必死者中的一员。
- save the doomed
- 拯救必死之人
- No one could save the doomed.没有人能够拯救那些必死之人。
Pop culture & quotes
- Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
- 忘记过去的人注定会重蹈覆辙。This is a popular paraphrase of a quote often attributed to the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana. It means that people who fail to learn from history are likely to make the same mistakes again.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
doomed 由 doom（厄运）+ed 构成，联想被厄运标记、注定死亡的人们，如电影中结局必死的角色。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：新闻报道、历史记载、文学作品 名词义的 doomed 通常以 the doomed 的形式出现，指注定灭亡或很快死去的一群人，多用于书面语、新闻报道或文学作品等较正式语境；口语中较少单独使用。
Grammar Note
通常以复数形式出现，且前面常加the。
Pronunciation & Spelling
These words all rhyme with doomed (/duːmd/): they end with the same /uːmd/ sound. Watch out for lookalikes that sound different: doom (/duːm/) has no final /d/, and dome (/doʊm/) uses a different vowel.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WORDNET.