catastrophe
美 [kəˈtæstrəfi] 
英 [kə'tæstrəfi]
- n.灾难；灾祸；横祸；不幸事件
- 网络大灾难；大祸；浩劫
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1. | 灾难；灾祸；横祸a sudden event that causes many people to suffer |
| Early warnings of rising water levels prevented another major catastrophe. 提前发出的洪水水位上涨警报防止了又一次的重大灾害。 |
2. | 不幸事件；困难an event that causes one person or a group of people personal suffering, or that makes difficulties |
| The attempt to expand the business was a catastrophe for the firm. 扩展业务的尝试使这家公司陷入困境。 |
| We've had a few catastrophes with the food for the party. 我们为聚会准备食物时遇到了一些困难。 |
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also it might be helpful for you to survive from suffering tragedy and anguishing catastrophe.
感恩的心还可以帮助我们度过最大的痛苦和灾难。
As you know, catastrophe has struck our nation. Has struck the world.
灾祸将要降临我们的国家和整个世界。
Whether she did that as effectively or as forcefully as the catastrophe demanded is the question that now haunts the Governor.
现在，困扰着州长的一个问题便是灾难当前，她是否有效的或是尽力的采取应对。
Once catastrophe happens, wards for infectious disease can be available and medical staff can be assembled and ready to work immediately.
一旦发生大的疫情，传染病院病房可以及时腾出使用，医务人员可以及时集结到位。
It has, however, taken the catastrophe of the earthquake to translate the subsequent goodwill into a momentous diplomatic initiative.
然而，它把地震灾难后的善意转化为重大的外交主动。
It would be a catastrophe if she were to make a scene by introducing them to my mistress, which is clearly her intention.
如果我和情人被她和她的朋友撞见，那将是一场灾难，而这显然就是她的用意所在。
Describing it as a "catastrophe" , Haiti's envoyto the US said the cost of the damage could run into billions.
海地驻美大使称这是一场“灾难”，可能造成高达数十亿元的损失。
and it's a disaster such a catastrophe for you to see so damn much of my ass you ask for me?
并且这是个灾祸，你要求的让你看到我屁屁这么多的对于你如此大的一个灾祸
Society is not set up to deal with rapid sea level rise. It would be a catastrophe of a magnitude we've never experienced.
社会并没有准备好应对急速的海平面上升，这将是一场我们从未经历过的劫难。
The American economy is on the edge of catastrophe, and much of the Republican Party is trying to push it over that edge.
美国的经济正处在灾难的边缘，许多共和党人正在将它推入灾难。
Such a spike would be felt by businesses and homeowners in catastrophe-prone areas around the world, including Florida and California.
在佛罗里达和加利福尼亚这样灾害多发的地区，公司业主和私人住房的拥有者都会有这样的考虑。
And one failed harvest is enough to turn Ethiopia, a nation of 66 million farmers, into a humanitarian catastrophe.
一次农业欠收足以让一个拥有66万农民大国的埃塞俄比亚陷入一场人道主义灾难。
The immediate effect of Garn-St. Germain, as I said, was to turn the thrifts from a problem into a catastrophe.
正如我说的，Garn-St.Germain法案当时最直接的影响就是把储蓄机构一般性的问题转变成了一灾难。
If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
如果有两种选择，其中一种将导致灾难，则必定有人会作出这种选择。
Simply knowing it's there can reduce stress, since you know you're not walking a fine line2 between comfort and catastrophe.
知道自己有这么一笔钱可以减轻你们的压力，因为这样一来你们就不用在安逸与灾难间绷紧神经生怕任何差错了。
Local officials have warned that China faces a catastrophe if it fails to stop erosion and other problems around the reservoir.
一些地方官员警告说，如果不能制止水库附近的泥土侵蚀和其他问题，中国会面临一场大灾难。
Last night, Obama said the time to pass the economic stimulus package is now, otherwise, he says, crisis could turn into catastrophe.
昨夜，奥巴马说现在正是实施政策刺激经济之时，否则，他在会上强调，经济危机会成为一场大灾难。
It's been a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions but senior management can only put on a brave face.
这是一场空前的灾难，可高层只能摆出勇敢的面孔。
This was: "Are we doing enough to reduce the probability of such a catastrophe? "
这就是：“为了降低发生这种灾难的可能性，我们是否做得足够？”
The slump is being discussed as if it were a natural catastrophe like the arrival of the comet that destroyed the dinosaurs.
人们谈论衰退，就好像在谈论自然灾难，犹如彗星撞击地球，使恐龙灭绝。
The attempt to expand the business was a catastrophe for the firm.
扩展业务的尝试使这家公司陷入困境。
He was not, it must be confessed, very much cast down by good old Mr. Sedley's catastrophe.
说老实话，他听得忠厚的赛特笠老先生遭了横祸，并不觉得怎么愁闷。
A catastrophe is brewing.
一场灾祸正在酿成。
Where you can buy extra coverage depends on the location of your home and the particular catastrophe you're trying to protect against.
你是否能购买额外的保险取决于你房子的位置和你希望投保的具体灾害类型。
In contrast, the U. S. government has managed its financials very poorly over the years and is flirting with a Greece-like catastrophe.
相比之下，美国政府多年来财务管理不力，目前有陷入希腊式灾难的危险。
While this might have been a good thing for the world as a whole, for my awards ceremony it was a catastrophe.
总体而言这是好事，对我的颁奖典礼来说却是灾难。
So I would encourage you to be as generous as you possibly can in response to what is a major catastrophe .
所以，我鼓励大家像面临任何一场重大灾难所作出的回应一样慷慨。
Globally, insurance companies are calling it a "catastrophe trend" .
从全球范围来看，保险公司把天气变暖称为“灾难趋势”。
It's almost as if the higher the rating of a financial institution, the more likely it was to contribute to financial catastrophe.
几乎可以说评级越高的金融机构对这次金融本盘的贡献越大。
Mr Paulson was still right to intervene: the collapse of Fannie and Freddie would have been a catastrophe.
保尔森插手干预仍是明智之举：二房的倒闭将会酿成一场灾难。
Mr Putin has said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the great geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.
普京曾说过，苏联解体是20世纪地缘政治的大灾难。
As you know, catastrophe has struck our nation.
如同你们所知道的，降临在美国的灾难
Finally, we hope against hope that we have the courage to ensure that this type of catastrophe can be prevented or mitigated.
最后，我们还是抱有一线希望，希望我们有勇气保证能够预防或者减轻这样的大灾难。
"TO CALL it a catastrophe was a catastrophe, " says Martin Bartenstein, Austria's economics minister.
“把它称作灾难才是真正的灾难。”奥地利经济大臣，马丁·巴特恩斯坦如是说。
It raises the question of whether Mr Buffett is as canny an underwriter as Ajit Jain, who runs his catastrophe reinsurance business.
这引发了一个问题：作为保险商，巴菲特有阿吉特•贾殷（AjitJain）精明吗？后者为他管理灾难再保险业务。
BPGlobalPR : Catastrophe is a strong word, let's all agree to call it a whoopsie daisy.
灾难这个词不和谐，我们都同意把它称作一个“微误操作”。
We are doing all that is possible to avoid a future economic catastrophe resulting from the extreme malfunctioning of the financial sector.
我们正在尽一切努力，以避免未来金融领域完全失灵所导致的一场经济灾难。
If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in catastrophe, then someone will do it.
如果做某事有两种或多种方法，而其中一种将会导致巨大灾难，那么一定会有人照这种方法做。
By now it can be applied to any policy which consists of daring one's opponents to take matters to the point of catastrophe.
现今，它可以用来指会激起对方把事情引向灾难的任何政策。
It was only a week ago that al-Shabab was driven out of the city, allowing aid workers to survey the scope of the unfolding catastrophe.
因为一周前，索马里激进伊斯兰组织青年党才被赶出城，救助人员才得以开始调查和了解不断蔓延的饥荒的范围。
Out of expectation, Shaoyang Jixin Real Estate seems to survive the catastrophe.
邵阳市基鑫房地产开发有限公司却似乎逃过了这一劫难。
And utter catastrophe does look like a realistic possibility, even if it is not the most likely outcome.
而大灾难确实是一种现实可能性，即使它不是最可能的结果。
You know that colonization which people brag about today has been a historic catastrophe.
你知道眼下有些人吹嘘的殖民化一直是历史灾难。
