calamity
雅思,GRE,1
英[kə'læmɪtɪ]
|美[kə'læməti]
日语:災害
法语:calamité
德语:Unglück
韩语:재난
俄语:calamidad
牛津词典
noun
- 灾难;灾祸
an event that causes great damage to people's lives, property, etc.
网络解释
n. 灾难;不幸事件
n. (Calamity)人名;(英)卡拉米蒂
词形变化
中文词源
calamity 灾难
来自calamus, 芦苇。指不结实,豆腐渣。
双语例句
- He described drugs as the greatest calamity of the age
他称毒品是这个时代最大的祸害。
- It could only end in calamity.
它只会落得个灾难性的下场。
- He gave the money to the victims of a natural calamity in order to crown his father's wish.
他把这笔钱捐给灾民,以遂其父的心愿。
- Even a greater natural calamity cannot daunt us.
再大的自然灾害也压不垮我们。
- Calamity occurs in successive years.
灾祸连年。
- The recent flooding in the south was a calamity.
最近南方的洪水是一场灾难。
- 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。
- When the football fans got into a frenzied fight, the spectators'stand collapsed, and the calamity occurred.
就在球迷们疯狂地争斗时,看台倒坍,酿成了惨祸。
- Calamity stalks in that country.
灾难在那个国家蔓延。
- He cried out in alarm," oh, what a calamity!"
他惊呼:“大事不好!”
- 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。
- One calamity followed close on another.
一场灾难紧接着一场灾难。
- We not only came through the natural calamity, but also won a bumper harvest.
我们不但战胜了灾害,而且获得了丰收。
- The shell and several file management utilities can help you avoid calamity.
Shell和一些文件管理实用工具可以帮助您避免灾难。
- The research on drainage technique is instructive for quay stability analysis and geologic calamity prevention and control.
排水技术的研究对港口码头的稳定分析以及地质灾害的防治具有指导性意义。
- Serious sudden natural calamity and artificial calamity are main factors which cause the general emergency.
突发的严重自然灾害和人为造成的灾害是导致一般紧急状态的主要因素。
- Some dire calamity would befall me.
就会有可怕的灾难降临到我身上。
- The spring floods were a great calamity to the farmers whose crops and houses were ruined.
春天的洪水对农人来说是一大灾难,他们的农作物和房子都被破坏。
- What caused this calamity?
是什么导致了这场灾难?
- He believes the great project which combining Christianity and Aristotle Philosophy in Middle Ages ends in the intellective calamity.
他认为,中世纪伟大的工程&合并基督教和亚里士多德哲学,已经在智性的灾难中终结了。
- They attacked me on my day of calamity, but the LORD came to my support.
他们在我困厄之日,袭击了我,然而上主却作了我的后盾。
- Waterlogging can be a frequent natural calamity for drought crop productions.
湿害(渍害和涝害)是旱作物生产中时常发生的自然灾害。
- Finally, what are the lessons of this calamity?
最后,我们从这场灾难得到了什么教训?
- Calamity showed us what human beings are capable of.
在灾难为我们展示了人类的微不足道。
- In the course of mankind's survival and development, the emergence of the unexpected calamity is unavoidable.
在人类生存与发展的过程中,突发性灾害的发生是不可避免的。
- Syria can still be saved from the worst calamity.
我们仍有可能把叙利亚从最可怕的灾难中解救出来。
- What we need to deal with is one of the most serious natural calamity in American history.
我们需要对付的是美国历史上最严重的自然灾害之一。
- But this calamity is the consequence of the crisis, not its cause.
但这场灾难是危机的后果,而非原因。
- The Black Death, an unprecedented calamity in history, had a great impact on European Culture.
黑死病给人类带来了空前的灾难,也对欧洲文化产生了重大的影响。
- They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.
我遭遇灾难的日子,他们来攻击我;但耶和华是我的倚靠。
语源
late Middle English (in the sense disaster and distress): from Old French calamite, from Latin calamitas