The British seldom awaken to imminent peril until disaster is at hand.

英国人很少在灾难临头时才意识到迫在眉睫的危险。

金山词霸

They felt some kind of disaster was hanging over them.

他们感到某种灾难就要临头.

《简明英汉词典》

Now that the situation becomes critical, one must keep calm.

事到临头, 要沉住气.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

For weeks I have had a feeling of impending disaster.

几个星期来,我一直感到大祸即将临头.

《用法词典》

A great disaster is befalling.

灾祸临头.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Disaster strikes one's head.

大祸临头.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

When the going gets tough, isn't it every man for himself?

事到临头, 还不是各人替自己打算?

汉英文学 - 围城

I tell you there is another sort of scourge in the air.

我告诉你们,还有另外一种灾祸就要临头了呢.

辞典例句

For me, the July twentieth affair was in every way a calamity.

就我来说, 七月二十日事件完全是大祸临头.

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They were terrorized and discoloured by the thought of an approaching death.

他们早已被死到临头的想法吓昏了.

辞典例句

A catastrophe is imminent unless Pinkerton returns soon.

要是平克顿不马上回来,大祸就要临头.

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We know a black day when it comes.

大祸临头时,我们会知道的.

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Before the final hundred mark was reached he began to indicate that a calamity was approaching.

快到只剩下最后的100块钱的时候,他开始提及即将临头的灾难.

英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

I said I would go, but had to cry off at the last moment.

我是说过要去的, 但事到临头却不得不改变了主意.

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Selden had retained her hand, and continued to scrutinize her with a strange sense of foreboding.

赛尔登一直紧握着她的手, 用预感到大祸临头的惊恐目光仔细观察她.

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