calamity

[美國]/kəˈlæməti/
[英國]/kəˈlæməti/
詞頻: 非常高

中文釋義

n. 災禍, 災難
Word Forms

短語搭配

natural calamity

自然災害;天災

例句

bear a calamity with fortitude

毅然忍受災禍

the journey had led to calamity and ruin.

這次旅行導致了災難和毀滅。

They have issued the calamity-stricken people with food.

他們把食品發給災民。

The frost last week was a great calamity to the citrus industry.

上週的霜凍對柑橘種植業是一場大災難。

I little knew then that such calamity would summon me hither!.

當時我不知道這樣的災難會召喚我來到這兒!。

natural calamities seemed to be the work of a wrathful deity.

自然災害似乎是憤怒諸神所爲。

If we had been careful such a calamity would not have befallen us.

假如我們謹慎的話, 這種災難不會降臨到我們的頭上。

The marriage proved to be the greatest calamity of his life.

事實證明這樁婚姻是他一生中最大的不幸。

A hurricane would be a calamity for this low-lying coastal region.See Synonyms at disaster

對於這地勢很低的海濱地區,颶風將是一場災難參見 disaster

Although of war and natural calamities everywhere asecene of devastation met the eye, you can still differentiate and analyze its hesternal charming and graceful bearing.

雖然歲月已經讓這個城池顯得滿目瘡痍了,但仔細看卻依然能夠辨析出城池昔日輝煌時的風采。

We must band ourselves against natural calamities despite the disputes on the working plan.

儘管我們對工作計劃存在着分歧,但我們應該聯合起來與自然災害作鬥爭。

It is perhaps not too much to say that any calamity the moment it is apprehended by the reason alone loses nearly all its power to disturb and unfix us.

毫不誇張地說,任何災難,一旦被理性“俘獲”,便已然喪失的了擾亂人心之力。

原聲例句

This was a calamity too deep for tears.

這場災難實在太深重了,已經不是眼淚所能表現的了。

來源: Gone with the Wind

A hurricane would be a calamity for this low-lying coastal region.

對於這個地勢低窪的沿海地區來說,颶風將是一場災難。

來源: IELTS Vocabulary: Category Recognition

Air pollution is another modern calamity that affects large cities and industrial areas.

空氣污染是另一個影響到大城市和工業領域的現代災難。

來源: VOA Standard October 2014 Collection

And why some insurance companies call in their own firefighters to help prevent a calamity.

以及爲什麼一些保險公司召集自己的消防員來幫助防止災難。

來源: CNN Listening Compilation August 2013

The president of the Philippines declared a state of national calamity.

菲律賓總統宣佈這是一場國家民族面臨的災難。

來源: CNN Listening November 2013 Collection

Unlike the cavemen of yesteryear, today we have the knowledge required to avert a cavity calamity.

就會逐漸減少,和以前的穴居人不一樣。

來源: TED-Ed (video version)

When we have these climate calamities, everyone's affected, but women and children are affected in particular.

當我們遇到這些氣候災難時,每個人都會受到影響,但婦女和兒童受到的影響尤其大。

來源: PBS Interview Environmental Series

And speaking " shellfishly" , that would be a calamity.

對於甲殼類動物來說,這簡直是一場災難。

來源: "Minute Earth" Fun Science (Selected Bilingual)

I've never seen this sort of calamity.

我從來沒有見過這樣的災難。

來源: NPR News September 2022 Compilation

This crisis was not caused by drought or flood. It is a man-made calamity created by conflict.

這場危機不是由旱災或水災引起的,而是衝突製造的人爲災難。

來源: VOA Standard August 2014 Collection

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