calamity

UK:  [kə'læməti]

US:  [kə'læməti]

复数：calamities  

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

1 . It is of great social significance to explore the post-calamity phenomenon created by men through the surface of the calamity.
透过灾异的表象去发掘由人为造成的后灾害现象，有着十分重要的社会意义。

2 . He did not know why, but he felt oppressed by the vague sense of impending calamity.
他不知道为什么，可他隐约觉得灾难即将来临，心里很压抑。

3 . 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。

4 . I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
我必在仇敌面前分散他们，好像用东风吹散一样。遭难的日子，我必以背向他们，不以面向他们。

5 . The Air China calamity was followed just a few weeks later by a 112-fatality China Northern crash off the northern port city of Dalian .
国航飞机失事数周后，中国北方航空公司一架客机在北方港口城市大连附近坠毁，造成112人死亡。