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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• But we managed to preserve all this through the catastrophes.
  但我们成功地在灾难中保全了这一切。
• 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。
• 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。
• The job of insurance companies is to guard others against catastrophes, not cause them.
  保险公司的职责是保卫其他人抵御灾难，而不是带来灾难。
• There are many natural catastrophes occurring in nature.
  自然界里有很多自然灾害发生。
• It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, and age that kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
  不是灾难，谋杀，死亡，疾病和年龄是人们不能存活；而是人们看你，笑你，和走上汽车的方式是我们无法存活。
• 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。
• 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。
• Out of which maladroit delay sprang anxieties, disappointments, shocks, catastrophes, and passing-strange destinies.
  也就在这种糊里糊涂等待的笨拙延宕中，生出了种种焦虑、失望、恐惧、灾难，以及种种短暂的离奇的命运。