disaster
disaster 英 [dɪˈzɑ:stə(r)] 美 [dɪˈzæstə(r)]
n. 灾难，灾祸；不幸
名词复数:disasters
- An earthquake, an oil spill, an economic collapse, a party with inedible food and truly awful music: Each of these could be described as a disaster, a cataclysmic event causing extreme suffering, even total destruction.
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- n. 灾难，灾祸；不幸
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1. an air disaster
空难
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2. environmental disasters
环境灾难
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3. Thousands died in the disaster.
数千人在这场灾祸中丧生。
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4. Disaster struck when the wheel came off.
车轮脱落，灾难就来了。
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5. financial disaster
严重的财政危机
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6. As a teacher, he's a disaster.
他当老师压根儿就不称职。
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7. The play's first night was a total disaster.
这出戏头一晚就彻底演砸了。
- disaster (n.) 1590s, from Middle French désastre (1560s), from Italian disastro "ill-starred," from dis-, here merely pejorative (see dis-) + astro "star, planet," from Latin astrum, from Greek astron "star" (from PIE root *ster- (2) "star"). The sense is astrological, of a calamity blamed on an unfavorable position of a planet.
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