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单词 disaster
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disaster
noun[CorU]
uk
/dɪˈzɑː.stər/us
/dɪˈzæs.tɚ/
B2
(aneventthatresultsin)greatharm,damage, ordeath, orseriousdifficulty:
灾难，大祸
Aninquirywasorderedinto therecentraildisaster(= aserioustrainaccident).有关方面下令调查最近这起铁路灾难事故。
It would be a disasterforme if Ilostmyjob.对我而言，如果丢了工作那将是一场灾难。
This is one of theworstnaturaldisastersevertobefallthearea.这是该地区所经历的最严重的自然灾害之一。
Heavy andprolongedraincanspelldisasterformanyplants.大量持续的降雨会对很多植物造成巨大的危害。
Everything was goingsmoothlyuntilsuddenlydisasterstruck.灾难突然降临之前一切进行得都很顺利。
Inviting James and Ivan todinneron the sameeveningwas arecipefordisaster(=causeda verydifficultsituation)- they alwaysarguewith each other.请詹姆斯和伊凡一起吃晚饭简直就是自找苦吃——他们在一起总是争来争去。
Synonyms
calamity
cataclysmliterary
catastrophe
crisis
emergency
tragedy
be a disasterB2informal
to be veryunsuccessfulorextremelybad:
非常失败，极为糟糕
Theeveningwas acompletedisaster.那场晚会糟透了。
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  • Thedestructionof therainforestsis anecologicaldisaster.
  • Theplanenarrowlyavoideddisaster when one of theenginescutout ontake-off.
  • Let usprayfor thevictimsof thisterribledisaster.
  • News of the disastershockedthewholeworld.
  • Floods andearthquakesarenaturaldisasters.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Accidents and disasters
  • accident
  • accidental
  • accidentally
  • accidentally on purposeidiom
  • an accident waiting to happenidiom
  • calamity
  • cataclysm
  • cataclysmic
  • cataclysmically
  • catastrophe
  • disastrous
  • disastrously
  • dumpster fire
  • emergency
  • forest fire
  • natural disaster
  • non-emergency
  • perfect storm
  • post-accident
  • snafu
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(Definition ofdisasterfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

disaster| American Dictionary

disaster
noun[C/U]
us
/dɪˈzæs·tər/
aneventcausinggreatharm,damage, orsuffering:
[C/U]financialdisaster
[U]disasteraid/relief
[C]Over 100peoplediedin the disaster.
[C]Thehurricanemay be thecostliestnaturaldisaster in UShistory.
fig.A disaster is also acompletefailure:
[C]Our lastdinnerpartywas anabsolutedisaster.
(Definition ofdisasterfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

disaster| Business English

disaster
noun[CorU]
uk
/dɪˈzɑːstər/us
asuddeneventthatcausesa lot ofdamage, such as a verybadfire,storm, oraccident:
Insurancecompaniesoftenchargeextratocoverfloods,earthquakes, or othernaturaldisasters.
anextremelybadsituationthat candestroya company’splans,success, orabilitytooperate:
mean/spell disaster for sbAcrashinrealestatepriceswouldmeanfinancialdisaster for thehousinglenders.
The $7.48billiontakeoverquicklyturnedinto amajordisaster.
(Definition ofdisasterfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdisaster

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Thus, drought, one of the greatest natural disasters intermittently confronting the nation, was blamed on political conflicts within the royal family.
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They are predictive in that one could use them with hypothetical disasters to predict what the most likely policy and political outcomes will be.
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The states ensured that their peoples were able to regain the property that they regularly lost to natural disasters and to foreign invasion.
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Since the early 1970s, the region seems to have been widely beset by civil wars, political upheavals, famines and other natural disasters.
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Historical studies of major natural disasters offer invaluable insights into a society by revealing long-term themes and continuities.
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A contemporary chronicler opined (in the annal for 1011) that 'all those disasters befell us through bad policy (unraeligdas)'.
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Other scholars have concentrated on individuals or local efforts with a particular emphasis on ballooning firsts or ballooning disasters.
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Catastrophic disasters violate expectations about an efficient and forceful government response and damage agency reputations.
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Before the 1980s, at least, citizens looked to states and localities if they looked to government at all for help with disasters.
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Will we strive to salvage the disaster's 'event-ness', or work to make it 'process-like'?
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The research agenda is not to look for impending disasters or catastrophes lurking around the corner.
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The computer itself was about to be indicted for the disasters.
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An extreme example of categorizing landscapes based on health is cities, which are enormously expensive ecological disasters.
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Major disasters, for example, compromise many interdependent systems simultaneously, often including individual lives, social systems, ecological systems, communication systems, and computer systems.
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The study also depicts the clinical disasters that could follow the enthusiastic pursuit of an untried, fashionable idea, notably faradism.
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Collocationswithdisaster

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absolute disaster
So too would cheerfulness and patience in the face ofabsolutedisaster.
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brink of disaster
As a woman of questionable morals, she seemed to stand by as her family teetered on thebrinkofdisaster.
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climatic disaster
This will mean that we fail to achieve our climate policy objectives and result in a climatic disaster.
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