英语释义

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin;

  "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"

  "a calamitous defeat"

  "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"

  "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin

  "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur

  "a fateful error"

片语

calamitous weather forecast灾害性天气预报

miserable悲惨的；痛苦的；卑鄙的

calamitous landform灾害地貌

catastrophic灾难的；悲惨的；灾难性的，毁灭性的

sudden calamitous突发性灾害

evil罪恶，邪恶；不幸

sudden calamitous weather突发性灾害天气

service for calamitous areas灾区救护团

the calamitous study灾荒研究

calamitous accident矿山灾害

calamitous natural phenomena灾害性自然现象

calamitous climate灾害气候

英汉例句

• meanwhile, noel and his brother have a rather calamitous one.

  同时，诺尔和他的哥哥度过了悲惨的一天。

• even more calamitous is the prospect of history teaching in the schools confining itself to the transmission and regurgitation of ‘facts’.

  而学校的历史教学若局限于自身「事实知识」传递与回流的窠臼，则其前景将更显黯淡。

• but a calamitous recession and higher unemployment undid this work.

  但灾难性的经济衰退和高失业率毁掉了这一成就。

• but not all bosses are in hot water for their handling of calamitous events.

  但不是所有的老板都被他们的首席执行官弄得陷入了水深火热之中。

• what inspired this calamitous performance?

  到底是什么驱使赖特做出这样极具灾难性的表现呢？

• the relief followed days of worry that mr karzai would trigger a calamitous crisis by rejecting the ecc’s findings.

  总算缓解了连续多天对卡尔扎伊为驳回ecc的调查结果而将引发灾难性危机的担忧。

• but the country would be in less calamitous shape if more officials worked as hard as he.

  但是如果更多的官员能像他这样努力工作，该国的受灾情况也许不会如此严重。

• peaceful contact proved elusive, but those encounters helped the agents stitch together a profile of a man with a calamitous past.

  和平交谈变得难以捉摸，但是这些遭遇使专家们拼凑出了一份有关此人悲剧过去的简介。

• it was an investigation he never got to complete. because on one calamitous night, raley’s world was shattered.

  那是一个他永远无法完成的调查工作，因为在一个不幸的晚上，雷利的世界坍塌了。

• greece is not the only modern nation that has faced calamitous budget shortfalls and needed to sell state-controlled land and other assets to keep creditors away.

  希腊并不是唯一的一个面临着悲惨的债务负担和试图出售国有土地和其他财产来偿还给债权人的国家。

• instead the government ran a fiscal deficit that was irresponsible in the fat years and became calamitous in the lean ones.

  政府的财政赤字在经济繁荣时无人负责，在经济萧条时就变成灾难。政府在经济繁荣时期不负责任的财政赤字政策，到经济萧条时期就变成了灾难。

• 「 i couldn「t imagine what calamitous event the student was predicting so i asked for an example. 」what if a student asks a question and you don」t know the answer?

  「我无法想象那个学生的猜测是个怎样的场景，所以我又问：“如果一个学生问你一个问题你却不知道答案那要怎么办？」

• it may be calamitous on the bank balance, but is it so morally reprehensible?

  对银行存款余额来说可能是不幸的，但是从精神上它是不是应该受到这样的谴责呢？

• if many universities drop big deals it will be calamitous for the publishers.

  如果很多大学都减少巨额交易这对出版商来说是毁灭性的。

• disaster teams managed to get a power line onto the site in an effort to reactivate crucial water pumps to cool overheating reactors and prevent a calamitous meltdown.

  事故处理小组们努力将一根电力线导入站点使电站内重要的水泵恢复运行，让它冷却过热的反应堆，阻止核反应堆的爆炸。

• in the past few centuries fossil fuels have risen to prominence, with calamitous consequences for the world's climate.

  近几个世纪以来，石油登上了显赫的位置，同时也为世界的气候带来灾难。

• a sudden loss of confidence in all sovereign debt, and especially in american treasuries, the world’s benchmark 「risk-free」 asset, would have calamitous consequences in a still-fragile recovery.

  对所有主权债突然的的信心丧失，特别是被当作世界无风险债券标竿的美国公债，将在仍然脆弱的经济复苏中造成灾难性的后果。

• a lot are sure that the cause of that debacle was the failure of bill and hillary clinton to pass health reform, and that coming up empty again could prove calamitous this time, too.

  很多人确信当时民主党一败涂地的原因是比尔?克林顿和希拉里?克林顿的医保改革没有通过，他们认为这次如果医保改革还是一无所成将再次导致灾难性的后果。

• it can not be stressed too strongly how totally calamitous for us all the roswell incident was.

  不能太过强调罗斯威尔事件到底带给我们多少灾难。

相似词

afflictive难受的；苦恼的；给人痛苦的

disadvantageous不利的；不便的；贬抑的

disastrous灾难性的；损失惨重的；悲伤的

painful痛苦的；疼痛的；令人不快的

violent暴力的；猛烈的