calamity

/kә'læmiti/ uk　 词频 #12502

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calamity 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 灾难, 不幸事件

英文释义

n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

calamity 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 calamity 在自然语境里怎么用：

The Pitt’s excellent Season 2 didn’t attempt to match or outdo the crisis of last year’s PittFest calamity.

—— <em>The Pitt </em>Brings the Crisis Home

Instead the rules of the game were simple but brutal: What hand did you hold when the calamity struck?

—— An asteroid extinguished all the dinosaurs except for birds. Here’s why

A cascade of calamities led to the worst nuclear meltdown in history .

—— Forty years after Chernobyl, more nuclear disasters are inevitable — plan for them

The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot.

—— Daniyal Mueenuddin on the Uses, and Abuses, of Real Life

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