catastrophes

英 [kəˈtæstrəfiz]

美 [kəˈtæstrəfiz]

n.  灾难; 灾祸; 横祸; 不幸事件; 困难
catastrophe的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 重大灾难;灾祸;横祸
  Acatastropheis an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
  1. From all points of view, war would be a catastrophe...
     不管从哪方面说，战争都将是场灾难。
  2. If the world is to avoid environmental catastrophe, advanced economies must undergo a profound transition.
     世界若要想避免环境灾难，经济发达的国家必须进行深刻变革。

双语例句

• The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes.
  这时电话铃响了，这预示着一串意想不到的灾难要降临了。
• We are just halfway through this year, but2011 has already delivered an unprecedented cascade of calamities, catastrophes, and humanitarian crises.
  今年仅仅过去一半，但2011年却已经发生了大量前所未有的灾难、灾害和人道主义危机。
• Catastrophes have a tendency to reveal who really holds authority and who knows how to exercise it responsibly.
  灾难往往能够揭露谁真正掌握着权力，以及谁知道如何负责任地行使权力。
• It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, and age that kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
  不是灾难，谋杀，死亡，疾病和年龄是人们不能存活；而是人们看你，笑你，和走上汽车的方式是我们无法存活。
• The San Francisco earthquake was one of the worst catastrophes of the century.
  旧金山地震是世纪性的灾难之一。
• But we managed to preserve all this through the catastrophes.
  但我们成功地在灾难中保全了这一切。
• Had he lost his power of scenting out catastrophes?
  对灾难他已失去嗅觉了吗？
• He called for non-proliferation measures to be taken around the global to avoid such catastrophes.
  他号召在全球采取防止核扩散的措施来避免发生类似的大灾难。
• There are many natural catastrophes occurring in nature.
  自然界里有很多自然灾害发生。
• Therefore, we can not rule out such catastrophes during our lifetimes.
  因此，我们不能排除这样的灾难在我们有生之年实现这一目标。