2015年8月17日 22:58 · 

The Economist

2015年8月17日 22:25 · 

Breathing Beijing’s air is the equivalent of smoking almost 40 cigarettes a day. Why China's "airpocalypse" is even worse than previously thoughthttp://econ.st/1IY0U47

Breathing Beijing’s air is the equivalent of smoking almost 40 cigarettes a day. Why China's "airpocalypse" is even worse than previously thoughthttp://econ.st/1IY0U47

airpocalypse

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of air +‎ apocalypse

Noun[edit]

 This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.

airpocalypse ‎(plural airpocalypses)

1. (informal) The presence of dense smog in many parts of China

apocalypse
noun [S or U]
1 a very serious event resulting in great destruction and change:
The book offers a vision of the future in which there is a great nuclear apocalypse.

2 the Apocalypse in the Bible, the total destruction and end of the world 啟示錄

apocalyptic 
adjective
apocalyptic visions of a nuclear confrontation
apocalyptic warnings about our destruction of the environment