calamity是什么意思_音标_用法_例句

简单释义：

n. 灾难；灾祸

网络 灾害；祸患；不幸事件

变形：

复数：calamities  

完整释义：

n.

1.灾难,灾害,困苦,不幸
2.灾难,灾祸,大祸临头,无妄之灾,不幸的事;
3.浩劫,劫数
4.不测事件

例句：

1. In trying to prevent financial-market calamity, the Fed may find itself pushed by Wall Street to leave interest rates too low for too long.
   美联储在努力防止金融危机的同时，也许会发现它在华尔街的影响下在太长的时间内把利率调得太低了。

2. At a time of a great natural calamity like a great earthquake, people just act according to their instincts and it's every man for himself.
   像大地震那样的天灾爆发的时候，人们只有凭本能各自逃命了。

3. Therefore, Kang Xi discontents in the heart extremely, determination calamity except that this endangers and injures the nation.
   因此，康熙心里极为不满，决心除掉这个危害国家的祸患。

4. But we have reached the point where hoping for the best invites calamity.
   不过，我们确实已经到了再做黄粱美梦便会招致灾难的时刻。

5. If it spreads elsewhere in Europe, it could become a wider agricultural calamity, like the foot-and-mouth epidemic in Britain of 2001.
   如果疫情扩展到欧洲其他地区，将演变成一个影响广泛的悲剧性的农业灾难。就如同2001年在英国的口蹄疫一样。

6. Several times a year, the calm world of the shrimp and algae would crackle and hiss and boil as calamity reigned for a few hours.
   一年有那么几次，让这个由小虾和藻类组成的平静世界产生几个小时的灾祸，噼啪作响、嘶嘶作声、沸腾起来。

7. Yet it is not too late, in the eyes of many congressmen at least, to introduce elaborate new schemes to avert calamity.
   然而，至少许多国会议员认为，时间还没有晚到无可救药的地步，还来得及出台深入详实的新方案使美国幸免于难。

8. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to people.
   能恢复视力当然是件奇妙的事情，但一场灾难也可以对人产生奇妙的作用。