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Перевод: knell

[существительное]
похоронный звон; дурное предзнаменование; предзнаменование гибели; предзнаменование смерти;
[глагол]
звонить при похоронах; звучать зловеще; предвещать

Тезаурус:

1. Crystal Palace chairman Ron Noades was a leading advocate of an enlarged Premier League, which would have sounded a death knell for the Football League.
2. Oddly enough, recent developments in the technology have tolled the death knell for another priesthood - that of the company computer expert.
3. The establishment of the dock mills effectively sounded the death knell for many of the smaller rural mills, such as those on the River Twyver and Horsebere Brook.
4. Was it the death knell of the nuclear industry or merely curfew time?
5. The quiet of Hertfordshire did wonders for me, I walked in the grounds and looked across at the "Immemorial elms" and listened for the "Curfew" to toll the knell of parting day in the best Thomas Gray style.
6. And so his knell is knolled"; by Malcolm, "The night is long that never finds the day"; by Macbeth himself, "Send out more horses, slurr the country round, /Hang those that talk of fear."
7. "I hear you're thinking of retiring," David Knell informed me over coffee one morning.
8. There were fouls galore, and the Town, to their credit, admitted the disgrace: "If what we served up on Saturday is football, well, the sooner its death knell is sounded the better; may we go further and say that never do we wish to see anything like it again."
9. It was David Knell, one of my colleagues.
10. "But it made a difficult situation impossible, caused distress to her and her husband and sounded the death knell on the marriage which until then, although in difficulties, neither of them had given up hope of saving."
11. I merely told David Knell that I might write more in future."
12. "This conference must sound the death knell of the block vote.
13. ESA's decision on ISO will probably toll the knell for the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility, which many American astronomers have seen as the next most important project for the 1990s after AXAF.