doomsayer
noun [ C ] mainly US uk/ˈduːm.seɪ.ər/ us/ˈduːm.seɪ.ɚ/
灾难预言者，末日论者
someone who says bad things are going to happen
Despite the doomsayers, the Athenians delivered the Olympic Games when they said they would. 尽管有末日论者的悲观言论，但雅典人还是如愿以偿地举办了奥运会。
"I hate to be a doomsayer," he said, "but it's going to be hard to attract new business." "我不想乌鸦嘴，"他说："但是真的很难吸引到新的业务。"
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- The doomsayers think Indian industry will be wiped out.
- Unlike some doomsayers, he has done plenty of homework.
- Back then, people like him were considered doomsayers, a chorus of bleak voices prophesying a strange war to come.