calamity

• n. 灾难；不幸事件
• n. (Calamity)人名；(英)卡拉米蒂

来自calamus, 芦苇。指不结实，豆腐渣。

1. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;

"the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"

"the earthquake was a disaster"

calamity (n.)

early 15c., from Middle French calamite (14c.), from Latin calamitatem (nominative calamitas) "damage, loss, failure; disaster, misfortune, adversity," origin obscure. Early etymologists associated it with calamus "straw" (see shawm); but it is perhaps from a lost root preserved in incolumis "uninjured," from PIE *kle-mo-, from base *kel- (1) "to strike, cut" (see holt).

disaster, calamity, catastrophe, misfortune

这些名词均表示"灾难"或"不幸"之意。

disaster： 普通用词，指大破坏、痛苦或伤亡。

calamity： 多指个人的不幸，比disaster严重，强调灾难引起的悲痛以及对于损失的感觉。

catastrophe： 语气最强，指可怕的灾难，强调最终的结局。

misfortune： 普通用词，多批较为严重的不幸，强调不幸多由外界因素所致。

He described drugs as the greatest calamity of the age.

他称毒品是这个时代最大的祸害。

柯林斯例句

The frost last week was a great calamity to the citrus industry.

上周的霜冻对柑橘种植业是一场大灾难.

《简明英汉词典》

The recent flooding in the south was a calamity.

最近南方的洪水是一场灾难.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

They have issued the calamity - stricken people with food.

他们把食品发给灾民.

《简明英汉词典》

Calamity occurs in successive years.

灾祸连年.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Even a greater natural calamity cannot daunt us.

再大的自然灾害也压不垮我们.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

If we had been careful such a calamity would not have befallen us.

假如我们谨慎的话,这种灾难不会降临到我们的头上.

《简明英汉词典》

He gave the money to the victims of a natural calamity in order to crown his father's wish.

他把这笔钱捐给灾民,以遂其父的心愿.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

It could only end in calamity.

它只会落得个灾难性的下场。

辞典例句

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.

辞典例句

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.

辞典例句

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

这是防止住生命中灾难的办法.

辞典例句

His becoming blind was a great calamity.

他双目失明是巨大的不幸.

辞典例句

War is a frightful calamity.

战争是可怕的灾难.

辞典例句

Calamity is man's true touch stone.

灾祸是吾人真正的试金石.

辞典例句