英语词汇“catastrophe”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

ca·tas·tro·phe

(kə-tăstrə-fē)

1. A great, often sudden calamity.

2. A complete failure; a fiasco: The food was cold, the guests quarreled—the whole dinner was a catastrophe.

3. The concluding action of a drama, especially a classical tragedy, following the climax and containing a resolution of the plot.

4. A sudden violent change in the earth's surface; a cataclysm.

[Greek katastrophē, an overturning, ruin, conclusion, from katastrephein, to ruin, undo : kata-, cata- + strephein, to turn; see streb(h)- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

单词	catastrophe
释义	ca·tas·tro·phe (kə-tăstrə-fē) n. 1. A great, often sudden calamity. 2. A complete failure; a fiasco: The food was cold, the guests quarreled—the whole dinner was a catastrophe. 3. The concluding action of a drama, especially a classical tragedy, following the climax and containing a resolution of the plot. 4. A sudden violent change in the earth's surface; a cataclysm. [Greek katastrophē, an overturning, ruin, conclusion, from katastrephein, to ruin, undo : kata-, cata- + strephein, to turn; see streb(h)- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
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