音标与读法

这里为大家介绍下calamity 是什么意思，希望能帮助到各位朋友。

音标：[ kə"læmiti ]名词复数:calamities

中英文翻译

n.

灾难，灾害，困苦，不幸。

an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"

同义词：catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm,

例句与用法

1.Calamity is man"s true touch stone .

灾祸是吾人真正的试金石。

2.The recent flooding in the south was a calamity .

最近南方的洪水是一场灾难。

3.An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity .

乐观者在灾难中可以看到希望。

4.This is the way to keep off every calamity of life .

这是防止住生命中灾难的办法。

5.One moment "s false security can bring a century of calamities .

图一时之苟安，贻百年之大患。

6.They supposed that some calamity had befallen the governor .

他们心想这位先生一定遇到了什么无妄之灾。

7.For me, the july twentieth affair was in every way a calamity .

就我来说，七月二十日事件完全是大祸临头。

8.It was a calamity .

这真是劫数。

9.We agreed that the war was in reality a calamity for civilization .

我们一致认为战争实质上是对文明的一场浩劫。

10.They will only triumph by persevering in their struggle against natural calamities .

他们只有坚持向自然灾害作斗争，才能取得胜利。

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