apocalypse

• n. ヨハネの黙示録

接頭辞apoは、離れて、ない。-宗教用語で啓示を意味し、終末的なビジョンを表す。

apocalypse

apocalypse: [13] A ‘catastrophic event, such as the end of the world’ is a relatively recent, 20thcentury development in the meaning of apocalypse. Originally it was an alternative name for the book of the Bible known as the ‘Revelation of St. John the divine’, which describes a vision of the future granted to St John on the island of Patmos. And in fact, the underlying etymological meaning of apocalypse is literally ‘revelation’.

It comes, via Old French and ecclesiastical Latin, from Greek apokálupsis, a derivative of the verb apokalúptein ‘uncover, reveal’, which was formed from the prefix apo- ‘away, off’ and the verb kalúptein ‘cover’ (related to English conceal).
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apocalypse (n.)

late 14c., "revelation, disclosure," from Church Latin apocalypsis "revelation," from Greek apokalyptein "uncover, disclose, reveal," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + kalyptein "to cover, conceal" (see Calypso). The Christian end-of-the-world story is part of the revelation in John of Patmos' book "Apokalypsis" (a title rendered into English as "Apocalypse" c. 1230 and "Revelations" by Wyclif c. 1380).

Its general sense in Middle English was "insight, vision; hallucination;" meaning "a cataclysmic event" is modern. As agent nouns, apocalypst (1829), apocalypt (1834), and apocalyptist (1835) have been tried.

1. Civilization is on the brink of apocalypse .

文明は破滅の瀬戸際に瀕している。

2.We live in the shadow of the apocalypse ，of a catastrophe that will mean the end of the world itself.

私たちは世界の終わりが訪れることを意味する災害の影の中で暮らしています。

3.It 's Ride of the Valkyries from Apocalypse Now.

それは『現代黙示録』の『熱狂的ワグナー』です。

4.Palm trees remind me the bombing scenes in Apocalypse Now.

会安のヤシの木は、『現代黙示録』の爆撃シーンを連想させる。

5.We live in the age of the final，ultimate Apocalypse .

私たちは最終決戦の時代に生きています。