doom
要点運命、破滅
意味
- (通例悪い)運命
- 破滅(ruin);死(death)
- (神の)最後の審判
- (厳しい刑罰などを)〈人〉に宣告する《+名+to+名(doing)》
- 《受動態で》…を運命づける
例文
The plan was doomed to failure from the start.
この計画は初めから失敗する事に運命付けられていた。
Those gloom and doom economists aren't worth their salt.
あんな悲観的な経済学者たちの言うことなんか、全然当てにならないよ。
The enterprise was doomed to failure.
その事業は失敗する運命にあった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos. Cognates Compare Dutch doem (“condemnation, doom; judgement”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish dom (“judgement”), Faroese and Icelandic dómur (“judgement”), Gothic 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃 (dōms, “insight, judgement”); also Ancient Greek θωμός (thōmós, “heap”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian ду́ма (dúma, “thought”), Polish duma (“pride”). Doublet of duma. See also deem.