详细释义
- 灾难
- 不幸
- 灾祸
- 苦难
- 灾害
- 困苦
- 大祸临头
- 无妄之灾
- 浩劫
- 劫数
- 不测事件
- 大祸
- 大灾害
- 不幸事件
n. (名词)
- [C][U]灾祸，灾难 accident；disaster
n. (名词)
英英释义
Noun:
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an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;
"the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"
"the earthquake was a disaster"
双语例句
- 1. He described drugs as the greatest calamity of the age.
- 他称毒品是这个时代最大的祸害。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The frost last week was a great calamity to the citrus industry.
- 上周的霜冻对柑橘种植业是一场大灾难.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. The marriage proved to be the greatest calamity of his life.
- 事实证明这桩婚姻是他一生中最大的不幸.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The recent flooding in the south was a calamity.
- 最近南方的洪水是一场灾难.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 5. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a crushing calamity.
- 偷袭珍珠港(对美军来说)是一场毁灭性的灾难.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The recent flooding in the south was a calamity.
最近南方的洪水是一场灾难。 - She is always on the alert for some new calamity.
她总是保持警觉以防某种新的灾难。
用作名词 (n.)
- Calamity stalks in that country.
灾难在那个国家蔓延。 - If we had been careful such a calamity would not have befallen us.
假如我们谨慎的话，这种灾难不会降临到我们的头上。 - The marriage proved to be the greatest calamity of his life.
事实证明这桩婚姻是他一生中最大的不幸。 - It will be a calamity if I fail my exam.
这次考试如果通不过我就惨了。 - They kept a record of earthquake calamity.
他们记录地震所发生的灾祸。 - I am afraid my report for the past year is not a very cheerful one,it is the story of one calamity on the back of another.
恐怕我关于去年的报告不令人愉快,那是一个接一个的灾难故事。 - The frost last week was a great calamity to the citrus industry.
上周的霜冻对柑橘种植业是一场大灾难。 - The spring floods were a great calamity to the farmers whose crops and homes were ruined.
这场春季洪水对那些房屋和庄稼被毁的农民来说是一场大灾难。 - The loss of the ship was a calamity to the navy.
该船的沉没为海军的一大不幸。
用作名词 (n.)
用法讲解
n. (名词)
- calamity, catastrophe, disaster
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- 这三个词均可指不幸的灾难。disaster指人为的或自然的灾祸; calamity指造成的灾祸比disaster更大; catastrophe指造成的损失无法补偿。
- disaster，calamity，catastrophe，misfortune
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- 这些名词均表示“灾难”或“不幸”之意。
- disaster普通用词，指大破坏、痛苦或伤亡。
- calamity多指个人的不幸，比disaster严重，强调灾难引起的悲痛以及对于损失的感觉。
- catastrophe语气最强，指可怕的灾难，强调最终的结局。
- misfortune多指较为严重的不幸，强调不幸多由外界因素所致。
词源解说
- ☆ 15世纪初期进入英语，直接源自中古法语的calamite，意为灾难。
用作名词 (n.)
动词+～
- avert a calamity 避免灾难
- cause calamity 酿成灾害
- evade calamity 避开灾难，祛灾
- flee from a calamity 逃难
- suffer a calamity 遭受灾难
- survive a calamity 幸免于难
- ward off a calamity 避开灾难
- bring calamity to the country and the people 祸国殃民
- appalling calamity 骇人听闻的灾难
- crushing calamity 毁灭性的灾难
- dire calamity 可怕的灾难
- greatest calamity 最大的不幸
- individual calamity 个人的不幸
- national calamity 国难
- natural calamity 自然灾难
- real calamity 真正的灾难
- social calamity 社会的灾难
- unavoidable calamity 不可避免的灾难
- war calamity 战祸
- water calamity 水灾
- 50 people were killed in the calamity 50 人在那场灾难中丧生
- the calamity of war 战祸（或兵燹）
- a real calamity to the nation 对民族的一大灾难
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