英语释义

• extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin;

  "a catastrophic depression"

  "catastrophic illness"

  "a ruinous course of action"

片语

catastrophic cancellation巨量消失

catastrophic epilepsy灾难性癫痫

catastrophic forgetting灾难性忘却

catastrophic dilution灾变性稀释

catastrophic failure突变失效；灾难性故障

Catastrophic Illness severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines

catastrophic wear毁坏性磨损

catastrophic creep灾变蠕变，致毁蠕变

catastrophic collapse毁灭性破坏

catastrophic crash机毁人亡

英汉例句

• copying, he points out, can be catastrophic — the history of market bubbles is testament to that.

  他指出，纯粹的复制将会是灾难性的，市场泡沫的历史就是对此的明证。

• with tiny populations of speakers, a single event such as the catastrophic 2004 tsunami could literally wipe these small languages from the face of the earth.

  由于讲这些语言的人少之又少，一次事件，比如2004年的海啸大灾难，便可将这些小语言从地球表面彻底抹去。

• the aim of the charter is to raise awareness about the need to put children at the heart of disaster risk reduction as they are among those who suffer most from catastrophic events.

  这项契约的目标是让人们认识到，需要把儿童置于减轻灾难风险的中心地位。因为儿童是在灾难性事件中受害最严重的群体之一。

• i have my world phone, but i left word not to be disturbed unless it was a catastrophic emergency.

  我带着自己的全球电话，但我留下了话，除非是灾难性的紧急事故，否则不要打扰我。

• 「human to human transmission would be a catastrophic event,」 she says.

  「人类间的传播将成为一个灾难性事件，」她说。

• 「the situation is not catastrophic yet, 」 said mr. holmes, after a day of visiting hungry villages hundreds of miles from here.

  霍姆斯先生在数百公里外饑饿的村庄访问了一天后，说「现在的情形还不是灾难性的。」

• the failure of the enterprise law produced catastrophic results in russia.

  企业破产法的失败在俄罗斯产生了灾难性的结果。

• moreover, the costs of caring for these diseases can be catastrophic for impoverished households, anchoring them even deeper in poverty.

  而且，治疗这些疾病的费用对于贫困家庭来说可能是灾难性的，会使它们更深地陷入贫困。

• the only option would be a catastrophic default.

  届时唯一的选择将是灾难性的违约。

• this is not out of love for the european dream, but rather out of fear of catastrophic losses.

  这一回答不是出于对欧洲梦的热爱，而是出于对灾难性损失的惧怕。

• they cancelled the second round of elections, with catastrophic consequences.

  他们取消了第二轮选举，结果造成了灾难性的后果。

• if managers identify with shareholders, as they do now, then they worry only about shareholders’ losses. catastrophic losses bigger than that are all the same to them.

  如果管理者认同股东，就像他们现在这样，那么他们就只关注股东的损失，比这再大的灾难性损失对他们也是一样。

• there has to be a feeling of trust and respect and an understanding of the benefits available, as well as removing practical barriers such as catastrophic costs for emergency caesarean sections.

  必须在人们中建立信任和尊重感，并让他们了解到可获得的好处，也要解决存在的实际障碍，比如紧急剖腹产的灾难性费用问题。

• if you start smoking then, you may have made not only a medical mistake but a catastrophic genetic mistake.

  如果那时你就开始吸烟，你不仅犯了一个医学错误，更是一个灾难性的遗传错误。

• the other common aspect of all these assignments was that they were not catastrophic failures, but had developed gradually over the years.

  所有这些任务的另一个共同之处是，都不是灾难性的故障，不过却都是多年来逐渐积累起来的。

相似词

tragic悲剧的；悲痛的，不幸的

violent暴力的；猛烈的

disastrous灾难性的；损失惨重的；悲伤的

afflictive难受的；苦恼的；给人痛苦的

destructive破坏的；毁灭性的；有害的，消极的