Catastrophe
[kə'tæstrəfɪ] or [kə'tæstrəfi]
解释:
(noun.) a sudden violent change in the earth's surface.
(noun.) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; 'lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system'; 'his policies were a disaster'.
丹尼校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.
(n.) The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.
(n.) A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes.
编辑:瑞伊
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Upshot, issue, consummation, conclusion, termination, denouement, FINALE, winding up, finishing stroke, final event.[2]. Calamity, disaster, misfortune, mishap, mischance.
校对:莱斯利
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Revolution, disaster, calamity, misfortune, misadventure, reverse, blow,visitation
ANT:Blessing, victory, triumph, felicitation, achievement, ovation, success,godsend
西莉亚手打
解释:
n. an overturning: a final event: an unfortunate conclusion: a calamity.—adj. Catastroph′ic—ns. Catas′trophism the theory in geology that accounts for 'breaks in the succession' by the hypothesis of vast catastrophes—world-wide destruction of floras and faunas and the sudden introduction or creation of new forms of life after the forces of nature had sunk into repose; Catas′trophist a holder of the foregoing as opposed to the uniformitarian theory.
编辑:卢克
例句:
- That catastrophe and other events may have worked upon Mr. Osborne. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- This change took from us the fear of an immediate catastrophe, although we were still anxious as to the final result. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Against the unifying effort of Christendom and against the unifying influence of the mechanical revolution, catastrophe won. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It would be a terrible catastrophe should such a thing happen, for not one of us could hope to escape. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- And to what degree was her dread of a catastrophe intensified by the sense of being fatally involved in it? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- How did the catastrophe affect him? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The irony of circumstances holds no mortal catastrophe in respect. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Far away, long before the dawn of history, this catastrophe occurred. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The catastrophe of the war was not an unnecessary disaster; it was a necessary fulfilment of such an age of drift. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He was both out of pocket and out of spirits by that catastrophe, failed in his health, and prophesied the speedy ruin of the Empire. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The catastrophe of this tree excited my extreme astonishment; and I eagerly inquired of my father the nature and origin of thunder and lightning. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- In that case, hopeless became admission; my adventure must issue in catastrophe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Your own opinion is, then, that some unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Where was the use of tempting such a catastrophe? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- But this evening the old drama had a new catastrophe. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The Swiss deposits contain clear evidence of such catastrophes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- That is what precipitates violence, that is what renders social co-operation impossible, that is what makes catastrophes the method of change. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Wars that were unmeaning catastrophes swept down upon any little gleam of prosperity or decency to which this or that community clambered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
整理:皮尔斯