calamity

美音：[kə'læməti] 英音：[kə'læməti]

简单释义：

n.灾难；灾祸

网络灾害；祸患；不幸事件

变形：

复数：calamities

完整释义：

1.灾难,灾害,困苦,不幸
2.灾难,灾祸,大祸临头,无妄之灾,不幸的事;
3.浩劫,劫数
4.不测事件

例句：

It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to people.
能恢复视力当然是件奇妙的事情，但一场灾难也可以对人产生奇妙的作用。
But we have reached the point where hoping for the best invites calamity.
不过，我们确实已经到了再做黄粱美梦便会招致灾难的时刻。
Several times a year, the calm world of the shrimp and algae would crackle and hiss and boil as calamity reigned for a few hours.
一年有那么几次，让这个由小虾和藻类组成的平静世界产生几个小时的灾祸，噼啪作响、嘶嘶作声、沸腾起来。
The calamity might have been contained if Lehman Brothers had been bailed out on September 14, 2008.
如果在2008年9月14日雷曼兄弟获得了担保，灾难也许不会发生。
If it spreads elsewhere in Europe, it could become a wider agricultural calamity, like the foot-and-mouth epidemic in Britain of 2001.
如果疫情扩展到欧洲其他地区，将演变成一个影响广泛的悲剧性的农业灾难。就如同2001年在英国的口蹄疫一样。
In Europe, delays in admitting that Greece borrowed too much turned what might have been a difficult but manageable problem into a calamity.
在欧洲，由于迟迟不肯承认希腊借了太多的债，结果一个困难但却还有能力解决的问题演变成了一场灾难。
It seemed to me that the great calamity had already manifested itself, that I could be no more truly alone than at this very moment.
我认为这场大灾难已经显露出迹象，我再也不会像此时此刻这样真的一人独处。
Severe natural calamity of agriculture would always bring about huge disasters, even crushing blows, to a country and a nation.
严重的农业自然灾害往往会给一个国家和民族带来巨大的灾难，甚至毁灭性的打击。

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