| 单词 | calamity |
| 释义 | calamity (kəlæmɪti ) Word forms: calamities variable noun A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress. [formal] He described drugs as the greatest calamity of the age. ...the calamity of war. It could only end in calamity. Synonyms: disaster, tragedy, ruin, distress Quotations: Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to othersThe Devil's Dictionary Collocations: calamity strikes If calamity strikes, you can access your funds without running foul of small print in a policy. ST When calamity strikes, you surely just go to the nearest? Times, Sunday Times Calamity strikes the family in the form of loss in business. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The threat of economic calamity presses in on many fronts. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The rest of it is sleepwalking to economic calamity. The Sun (2014) In Britain no bank has been called to account for its part in the current economic calamity. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Economic historians now consider that an almost mystical attachment to the 19th-century gold standard turned a normal business downturn into an economic calamity. Times, Sunday Times (2009) As the waters rise, a new generation of writers and poets faces the challenge of putting environmental calamity into words. Times, Sunday Times You can be logical about this and point out, rightly, that none of it matters compared with war, terror and environmental calamity. Times, Sunday Times According to the artist himself, much of his early work was inspired by a sense of looming environmental calamity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That's why his books, which tell tragic stories of financial calamity, are surprisingly easy, and even fun, to read. Times, Sunday Times It marked the beginning of hope and the end of financial calamity. Times, Sunday Times He warns that failure to re-elect him will preface financial calamity. Times, Sunday Times A lot has changed since financial calamity struck in the summer of 2007, much for the better. Times, Sunday Times Yet something far more fundamental has to change if we are to avert another financial calamity. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 灾难 Japanese: 災難 |
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