Catastrophe

(noun.) a sudden violent change in the earth's surface.

(noun.) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; 'lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system'; 'his policies were a disaster'.

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• That catastrophe and other events may have worked upon Mr. Osborne. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• This change took from us the fear of an immediate catastrophe, although we were still anxious as to the final result. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Against the unifying effort of Christendom and against the unifying influence of the mechanical revolution, catastrophe won. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It would be a terrible catastrophe should such a thing happen, for not one of us could hope to escape. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• And to what degree was her dread of a catastrophe intensified by the sense of being fatally involved in it? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• How did the catastrophe affect him? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The irony of circumstances holds no mortal catastrophe in respect. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Far away, long before the dawn of history, this catastrophe occurred. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The catastrophe of the war was not an unnecessary disaster; it was a necessary fulfilment of such an age of drift. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He was both out of pocket and out of spirits by that catastrophe, failed in his health, and prophesied the speedy ruin of the Empire. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The catastrophe of this tree excited my extreme astonishment; and I eagerly inquired of my father the nature and origin of thunder and lightning. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• In that case, hopeless became admission; my adventure must issue in catastrophe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Your own opinion is, then, that some unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Where was the use of tempting such a catastrophe? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But this evening the old drama had a new catastrophe. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The Swiss deposits contain clear evidence of such catastrophes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• That is what precipitates violence, that is what renders social co-operation impossible, that is what makes catastrophes the method of change. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Wars that were unmeaning catastrophes swept down upon any little gleam of prosperity or decency to which this or that community clambered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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