day of reckoning

英 [deɪ ɒv ˈrekənɪŋ]

美 [deɪ əv ˈrekənɪŋ]

n. 清算之时;报应到来的日子

柯林斯词典

N-SING 清算之时;报应到来的日子
If someone talks about theday of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
1. The day of reckoning is coming for the water company directors.
  跟自来水公司的主管们算账的日子就要到来了。

noun

an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
1. everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it
2. that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world
Synonym:doomdoomsdayend of the world
(New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
Synonym:Judgment DayJudgement DayDay of JudgmentDay of JudgementDoomsdayLast JudgmentLast JudgementLast Dayeschatondoomsdaycrack of doomend of the world

The day of reckoning is coming for the water company directors.
跟自来水公司的主管们算账的日子就要到来了。
Oil producers that have not understood this tectonic shift and begun to adapt to this new reality will suffer, and be left behind to face their day of reckoning.
没明白这种结构性转变并开始适应这种新现实的产油国将陷入困境，会掉队并面临市场的清算。
The day of reckoning has now arrived.
眼下，清算的日子到了。
How distant those times seemed now, he reflected. You're enjoying yourself now, but a day of reckoning will come.
他在想那些日子现在已显得多麽遥远.别看你现在逍遥，将来会遭报应的。
The day of reckoning will come when the high economic growth rate finally falters.
当经济高速增长最终难以为继时，灾难就将来临。
A verifiable market-based trigger makes it impossible for a regulator to delay the day of reckoning.
一个基于市场的可核实的触发条件，令监管机构不可能再推迟摊牌的时间。
The day of reckoning had not yet come for him.
他遭报应的日子还没有来到。
There will be a day of reckoning for what you have done to me!
你对我所做的一切，总有一天要遭报应的。
But that only delayed the day of reckoning.
但这只能推迟摊牌的时间。
He believes there is a limit to how long consumers can put off the day of reckoning.
他相信，消费者拖延最后“算帐”的时间总有个限度。