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.- 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。 - 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。
- From all points of view, war would be a catastrophe...
双语例句
- Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages.
植物的病害、于旱、荒芜和绝望是那个时代常发生的灾难。 - 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。 - And preparing for potential catastrophes is part the new normal.
因此,为潜在的大灾难做好准备,正是这种“新常态”的一部分。 - 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。 - Alongside these catastrophes are many smaller disasters.
伴随着这些重大灾难的,还有许多规模小一些的灾难。 - 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。 - 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。 - Had he lost his power of scenting out catastrophes?
对灾难他已失去嗅觉了吗? - Our loans offer hedging opportunities to protect borrowers from foreign exchange or interest rate risk and even other risks such as droughts and catastrophes.
我们的贷款提供对冲选择,减少借款人的利率和汇率风险,甚至干旱和自然灾难等其它风险。 - 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。