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
- 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。 - 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。 - This would be a recipe for yet bigger catastrophes in future years.
这将导致未来发生更严重的灾难。 - Other unexpected events, including natural catastrophes, may need emergency fiscal support.
包括自然灾害在内的其它意外事件,可能需要紧急财政支持。 - 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。 - Abrupt catastrophes may come one day if mankind continues to pollute the environment.
如果人类继续污染环境,大灾祸可能会很快降临。 - 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。 - 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。 - They can feel death, earthquakes and other catastrophes in advance.
它们能够提前感知死亡、地震和一些其他的大灾难。 - Had he lost his power of scenting out catastrophes?
对灾难他已失去嗅觉了吗?