calamity
美 [kəˈlæməti] 
英 [kə'læməti]
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英汉双解
1. | 灾难；灾祸an event that causes great damage to people's lives, property, etc. |
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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。
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。
still less unfold the business to my master, absorbed as he was in his present calamity, and having no heart to spare for a second grief!
更不敢把这件事向我的主人揭露，他正沉浸在他目前的灾难里，经受不住又一次的悲痛了！
To a man laboring under calamity , the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
对于一个在不幸中操劳的人来说，他的热情中隐藏着某种悲伤。
and if the latter, then death or any other calamity which may ensue on my remaining here must not be allowed to enter into the calculation.
如果后者是正确的，那么即使死亡和其他灾难会在我选择留下后发生，也不能让它们进入到我们的思考之内。
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。
No thoughts for the morrow -- he could not stand to think of it any more than he could of any other calamity.
他才不去想什么明天--他一想到明天就受不了，正如他不愿去想别的灾难一样。
The Air China calamity was followed just a few weeks later by a 112-fatality China Northern crash off the northern port city of Dalian .
国航飞机失事数周后，中国北方航空公司一架客机在北方港口城市大连附近坠毁，造成112人死亡。
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。
At a time of a great natural calamity like a great earthquake, people just act according to their instincts and it's every man for himself.
像大地震那样的天灾爆发的时候，人们只有凭本能各自逃命了。
In 2003, as a Fed governor, he was one of the loudest advocates of using low interest rates to insure against the calamity of deflation.
2003年，作为美联储主席，他在主张利用低利率来防止通缩灾难的鼓吹者之中，是声音最大的一个。
What was the cause of Israelite's calamity? How could Israelite get out of the calamity?
以色列遭到苦难的原因何在？以色列如何才能脱离苦难？
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
我必在仇敌面前分散他们，好像用东风吹散一样。遭难的日子，我必以背向他们，不以面向他们。
In trying to prevent financial-market calamity, the Fed may find itself pushed by Wall Street to leave interest rates too low for too long.
美联储在努力防止金融危机的同时，也许会发现它在华尔街的影响下在太长的时间内把利率调得太低了。
The size of the calamity raises the question of whether small countries can really afford bank bailouts.
这场灾难的规模如此之大，令人不禁要问，一些小国真的负担得起救助银行的成本吗？
He did not know why, but he felt oppressed by the vague sense of impending calamity.
他不知道为什么，可他隐约觉得灾难即将来临，心里很压抑。
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。
It is of great social significance to explore the post-calamity phenomenon created by men through the surface of the calamity.
透过灾异的表象去发掘由人为造成的后灾害现象，有着十分重要的社会意义。
An examination of the collapse of Xinjian Primary School offers a disturbing picture of a calamity that might have been avoided.
对新建小学倒塌事件的调查显示，这场灾难本是可以避免的。这个结论可能会让部分人感到头疼不已。
Officials to hear one word, Liu scared urination or incontinence wet ku dang, I do not know what is coming calamity.
一听到官府二字，刘景升吓得小便失禁淋湿了裤档，不知又有什么大祸降临。
Supposing you had been more careful, such a calamity would not have befallen us.
如果你小心一些，我们就不会发生这种不幸的事情。
The BBC highlights what might have been the actual cause of the calamity: arsonists .
BBC重点介绍了灾难的可能实际原因：纵火者。
House of flowers may have been a calamity, was it frustrating branches off Whispering.
院中的花草可遭了殃，被它折腾的枝折花落。
Yet it is not too late, in the eyes of many congressmen at least, to introduce elaborate new schemes to avert calamity.
然而，至少许多国会议员认为，时间还没有晚到无可救药的地步，还来得及出台深入详实的新方案使美国幸免于难。
Since confronting fears of complete calamity back in early March, stock markets around the world have recovered smartly.
从3月初面临着市场全面崩溃的恐惧以来，全球各地股市已经明显回升。
They regarded this sudden calamity as a direct warning of Heaven and asked the King of Persia to let them stay where they were.
他们视这个突然的灾难为上天的警告并要求波斯王让他们停留在所在的地方。
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。
In the face of calamity, a decent people has proved extremely resilient: no looting; very little complaining among the tsunami survivors.
面对不幸，素养良好的民族表现出极其克制的一面：没有抢掠，海啸幸存者中也几乎没有什么抱怨。
Sometimes, a financial decision goes bad, one of your children gets in trouble at school, or some household calamity occurs.
有时，会做出错误的经济开支决定，你的哪个孩子在学校闯祸了，或者出了一些家庭灾难。
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。
The American and Chinese economies are so entwined, however, that any attempt to separate them will end in calamity.
然而，美国和中国经济相互交织，深入相连，因此任何破环这种依存关系的企图都会导致毁灭性的灾难。
This paper studied the low efficiency of nitrogenous fertilizer of our county, the cause of fertilizer losing and its calamity.
本文主要探讨了目前我国氮肥利用率低下，肥料损失的原因及危害。
Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood said the situation is a calamity, but air travelers are safe.
美国运输部部长雷·拉胡德说，这是一个不幸的情况，但航空旅客的安全是没有问题的。
This was not the result of some economic calamity, but of the government's welcome decision to relax its definition of rural poverty.
这并不是因为某些经济灾难，而是因为政府出台一项广受欢迎的决策——放松农村贫困人口的定义。
calamity will come, just look what he did evil things, will certainly be able to predict the get.
灾祸将要降临时，只需看他所做的恶事，也必定能够预先推测得到。
A pessimist sees a calamity for the result of what though set minimum expectations, but meanwhile set for yourself a high standard.
悲观者对事情的结果虽然设置了最低期望，但却同时为自己设定了一个很高的标准。
For example, the system is designed if does not notice risk analysis, if it causes the great calamity to produce the question.
例如，系统设计如果不注意到风险分析，如果产生问题将会造成极大的灾害。
For the rich lamas and secular lords, the Communist intervention was an unmitigated calamity.
对富裕的喇嘛以及领主来说，共产党的介入无异于一场无法化解的灾难。
The loss of Arcore was one of several that made these elections a personal calamity for Mr Berlusconi.
对贝卢斯科尼而言，丢掉Arcore，正是诸多使选举成为个人灾难的事件之一。
