| 单词 | catastrophe |
| 释义 | catastrophe (kətæstrəfi ) Word forms: catastrophes countable noun A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage. From all points of view, war would be a catastrophe. ...the economic and environmental catastrophe that the oil leak has caused. Synonyms: disaster, tragedy, calamity, meltdown [informal] Collocations: catastrophe strikes What will you do when catastrophe strikes? Times, Sunday Times When catastrophe strikes, leaders must act fast. The Sun In the middle of the scientist's rocket approach to the station, catastrophe strikes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It means climate-change fiction — stories about the world after a climate catastrophe, stories that used to be called science fiction. Times,Sunday Times To make predictions based on the present could be an act of climate catastrophe denial, an act that recursively makes the catastrophe more likely. The Times Literary Supplement Will humanity be doomed by climate catastrophe? Times, Sunday Times You do not need to believe in the science of climate catastrophe to realise that responsible husbandry of the planet's resources makes sense - especially with such a rapidly growing population. Times, Sunday Times But the idea of using millions of buckets of whitewash to avert climate catastrophe has won the backing of one of the world's most influential scientists. Times, Sunday Times Even as she falls in love again, she holds fast to the knowledge 'that every intimacy carries, secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surface, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe'. The Times Literary Supplement A total and complete catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times Firms that accept a degree of failure as a natural part of innovation and learn from it are actually less likely to suffer a complete catastrophe, he said. Times, Sunday Times During the interwar period, shepherds used strychnine to control the wolf population, causing an ecological catastrophe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The whole population was about to be wiped out by an ecological catastrophe resulting from an uncontrolled industrial development. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The impact and resulting ecological catastrophe causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He cites ecological catastrophe as an example of this. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The coastal countries threatened by ecological catastrophe support the release of the prisoners. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If markets are to be believed, we are in the early stages of a global economic catastrophe. Times,Sunday Times When banks stopped lending to each other in 2007, they set in slow motion an economic catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times That decision was unavoidable if economic catastrophe was to be prevented. Times, Sunday Times Not by economic catastrophe (although that happens too), but by design. Times, Sunday Times You could barely design a more castiron recipe for economic catastrophe. The Sun They have got more environmental catastrophes to deal with - more hurricanes, mud slides, landslides. Times, Sunday Times (2010) I'm afraid of earthquakes, tsunamis, environmental catastrophe and war, but not difficult roles. Times, Sunday Times (2011) It is impossible for me to look at a cotton field now without seeing the environmental catastrophe that it often represents. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Above this level, he warns, the world would face catastrophe from runaway warming that could melt ice caps and glaciers and force hundreds of millions from their homes. Times, Sunday Times These households are facing catastrophe as their incomes disappear. Times,Sunday Times If the planet faced catastrophe on the scale envisaged by the theorists of the 'limits to growth', then all public policy ought indeed to be subordinated to preventing it. Times, Sunday Times It has been the financial catastrophe to end all catastrophes and the final bill is not yet in. Times, Sunday Times (2010) On his shoulders has rested responsibility for avoiding financial catastrophe. The Sun (2010) The ambition was to lessen the risk of financial catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Then there's a nod to the future: are we headed towards global catastrophe, or the most exciting bit of human history? Times, Sunday Times I've also made a survival plan in the event of a global catastrophe. The Sun As its centenaries passwewill inevitably relive, but as far as we can we should also reconsider, that global catastrophe. The Times Literary Supplement In this sense, global catastrophe has become a marketing opportunity for some of the world's richest, oddest people. Times, Sunday Times So why has this tiny increase in temperature triggered such concern about the world overheating and causing a global catastrophe? Times, Sunday Times Away from the political posturing, a human catastrophe has begun to unfold. Times, Sunday Times It was the biggest single natural human catastrophe in history. Times,Sunday Times As well as this potential human catastrophe, climate change will be disastrous for wildlife. Times, Sunday Times Those concerned with water, food and medical care need to be brave enough to break the taboo, or we will see the worst human catastrophe in history. Times, Sunday Times A human catastrophe needs human reponses. The Sun Aid workers have said that an offensive risks a humanitarian catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a humanitarian catastrophe whose effects, in lingering deaths from radiation sickness, were felt for decades. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The soldiers advanced along the beach from north and south, defying warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe and international appeals for a ceasefire to allow the civilians to escape. Times, Sunday Times (2009) He warns of imminent catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times Global warming was the new imminent catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times A loud crack heralded imminent catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times Looks like he's heading for the imminent catastrophe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 According to his report, the book was certain to have a negative effect upon a reader for it hints on imminent catastrophe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Six weeks before, the leaders of all three political parties were all but oblivious to any impending catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times The captain said that he alerted all other vessels in the area to the impending catastrophe and asked them to come to the rescue. Times, Sunday Times He plays a near burnt-out cop unexpectedly contacted by a crime kingpin who warns of an impending catastrophe in 25 days. Times, Sunday Times People in some areas would have had more than adequate time to seek safety if they were aware of the impending catastrophe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The flood occurred during the nighttime, so most residents were unaware of the impending catastrophe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Fears of a major catastrophe were mounting as more bodies were pulled from ruined buildings. The Sun He has an idea of the way things have to go and if they don't, it's a major catastrophe. The Sun Soon, these witchcraft persecutions would become intertwined in the succession struggles and erupt into a major catastrophe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We went into this thinking it could be a major catastrophe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, flooding in the city was deemed a major catastrophe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Post-apocalyptic thriller about the last survivor of a man-made catastrophe. The Sun Could the comforts of 2000 to 2010 have preceded some man-made catastrophe in 2020 that he cannot recall from the time of his birth? Times, Sunday Times For many the crisis that has reduced them to refugees was not caused by nature but was a man-made catastrophe laced with years of lies, obfuscation and incompetence. Times, Sunday Times In the hierarchy of man-made catastrophes to befall birds it had chosen a very unusual death. Times, Sunday Times Furthermore, while there were contingency plans for a variety of natural and man-made catastrophes, high temperatures had rarely been considered a major hazard. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Not very funny, more like a near catastrophe. The Sun Just over a year ago a medical near catastrophe left me delusional for nearly four days and nights. Times, Sunday Times While on one of her many mercy missions, she was involved in a near catastrophe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I had a feeling of near death or near catastrophe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The submariner said that he could have sold the information, but decided to release it to raise awareness to prevent a 'nuclear catastrophe'. Times, Sunday Times The second worst ever nuclear catastrophe? The Sun Regardless, her story drew the attention of millions to the nuclear catastrophe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was about a nuclear catastrophe and religious sects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The pandemic has contaminated everyone else, and we're all now hyperaware of potential catastrophe. Times,Sunday Times But everyone who knows anything about financial markets regards it as a potential catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times It's not as if we have steadily built up some sort of sovereign wealth fund to deal with a potential catastrophe; quite the opposite. Times,Sunday Times Since then, a crisis has turned into a potential catastrophe. The Sun We treated the storm as though it were a hurricane, ensuring that everything conceivable was done to avert potential catastrophe - and in this case we were right. Times, Sunday Times It failed to prevent the catastrophe of the financial crisis of 2007-09 and the deep ensuing recession. Times, Sunday Times In his belief, the multi-national companies can only be controlled by global laws to prevent a catastrophe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There seemed to be no way of preventing this catastrophe from unfolding. Times, Sunday Times There was no promise of speedy victory, only of preventing a catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times He advocated enhancing society's capacity to cope with and adapt to the unexpected, rather than trying to prevent all catastrophes in advance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Well don't panic, luckily your favourite insects are covered in water-repellent hairs, which mean they will have wriggled free in time to survive the catastrophe. The Sun None of them will be told if they survive the catastrophe and alternative scripts will be used to keep plot details 'under wraps'. The Sun Out of 500 people, only eleven survive the catastrophe. The Times Literary Supplement Now they must survive the catastrophe using wit, physical prowess and luck, rescue other survivors trapped in the debris and run to find reinforcements, or any sort of help. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 People are battle-hardened after surviving the catastrophe and living for 12 days in the camp. Outlook India Translations: Chinese: 大灾难 Japanese: 大災害 |
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