The property record was known as Domesday Book because it seemed to the English not unlike the Book of Doom to be used by the greatest feudal lord of all on Judgment Day.

• 这本财产清册之所以叫做《末日审判书》是因为对英国人来说这本土地清册无疑就是最后审判日那天上帝所用的《末日书》。