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单词 calamity
释义
calamity
noun[C]
uk
/kəˈlæm.ə.ti/us
/kəˈlæm.ə.t̬i/
aseriousaccidentorbadeventcausingdamageorsuffering:
灾难；灾祸
Aseriesof calamitiesruinedthem -floods, afailedharvest, and thedeathof ason.一连串的灾难击垮了他们——洪水、歉收、丧子。
Synonyms
cataclysmliterary
catastrophe
crisis
disaster
emergency
tragedy
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Accidents and disasters
  • accident
  • accidental
  • accidentally
  • accidentally on purposeidiom
  • an accident waiting to happenidiom
  • cataclysm
  • cataclysmic
  • cataclysmically
  • catastrophe
  • catastrophic
  • disastrous
  • disastrously
  • dumpster fire
  • emergency
  • forest fire
  • natural disaster
  • non-emergency
  • perfect storm
  • post-accident
  • snafu
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Related words

calamitous
calamitously
(Definition ofcalamityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

calamity| American Dictionary

calamity
noun[C]
us
/kəˈlæm·ɪ·t̬i/
aneventthatcausesmuchsufferingto manypeople:
Thefactoryclosings were a calamity for thewholecity.
(Definition ofcalamityfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcalamity

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Such calamities served as a ' flash point ' on the colonial landscape.
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Thus, there was a component of ' bad luck ' - a ' naturalcalamity' factor.
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Covert activities may be justified in infiltration of illegal groups or to prevent crimes or calamities.
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To be brief, copper smelting was an environmentalcalamity.
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Animal activists are at the same time searching for ways to save animals from ecologicalcalamity.
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They invoke supernatural agents to deal with emotionally eruptive existential anxieties, such as loneliness,calamity, and death.
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In these days few are so biassed by party or sectarian bitterness as to grudge an epitaph to virtue andcalamityin times gone by.
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No, because haphazard calamities are meant to apply to agents who are already established.
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Contrary to the case of industrial environments, where the environment can be structured and regulated, uncertainty prevails incalamitysituations.
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For them, one might assume, the perpetrator lost his dignity by his own deeds and is therefore responsible for thecalamitythat befalls him later.
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In response to thiscalamity, each household contributed several bundles of millet from their own meagrely stocked granaries.
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When he acted contrary to virtue, it was believed that heaven reprimanded him with acalamity.
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If we had carried out the survey after a drought or anothercalamity, the responses might have been different.
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Presently she began a relation of her calamities : all her children were dead, and she was left alone upon the earth.
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Whether this is acalamityis a different matter, studied below.
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