- catastrophe
- [kə'tæstrəfi]
- n. 大灾难;大祸;惨败
参考例子
- 1.The food was cold, and the guests quarreled-the whole dinner was a catastrophe.
- 食物是冷的,客人们又吵了起来——整个晚宴是一次完全的失败。
- 2.The company lost its biggest customer and that was a catastrophe for its future.
- 公司失去了最大的客户,这对它的未来可谓是一大灾难。
- 3.How to head off that catastrophe should be the dominant policy issue of our time.
- 如何阻止这种灾难的发生,应当是我们这一时代主要的政策问题。
英文解释
- n.
- 1.an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- 2.a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
- 3.a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
网络释义
- Catastrophe
- 大难临头; 大灾难; 灾祸、事故; 灾变;
- catastrophe theory
- 突变论; 突变理论; 剧变理论; 变理论;
- catastrophe point
- 突变点;
- catastrophe set
- 突变集;
- causing catastrophe
- 造成大灾难; 造成大灾难 造成大灾难;