catastrophe
音标发音
- 英式音标 [kəˈtæs.trə.fi]
- 美式音标 [kəˈtæs.trə.fi]
- 国际音标 [kə'tæstrəfi]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.大灾难;大祸;彻底失败
词源解说
- 1530左右进入英语,直接源自希腊语的katastrophe,意为翻倒。
词根记忆
- cata(下面) + (a)stro(星星) + phe→星星坠落→大难临头→突如其来的大灾难
- cat(a)(落下) + astro(星星) + phe→星星坠落,古人认为星星坠落预示大难临头→大灾难
- cat(a)(落下) + astro(星星) + phe→星星坠落(古人观天象,认为星星坠落预示着大难临头)→灾难
- cat(看作cad,落下) + astro(星星) + phe→星星坠落,大难临头→大灾难,大祸
- cata(下面) + strophe(转)→天转地覆→灾难
英汉例句
- The flood was a major catastrophe, causing heavy loss of life.
洪水是一场大灾难,夺去了许多人的生命。
用作名词 (n.)
词组短语
- avert a catastrophe 避免一场灾难
- financial catastrophe 财政困难
- natural catastrophe 自然灾害
- catastrophe to everyone 对每个人都是灾难
- catastrophe risk 巨灾风险;特殊风险
- Catastrophe failure 重大事故;严重故障
- catastrophe insurance 巨灾保险;重大事故保险
- agricultural catastrophe 农业巨灾
用作名词 (n.)
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短语
英英字典
- a sudden event that causes very great trouble or destruction
- A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
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柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 突变
The mistakes existing in the research of rock dynamic destabilization by using catastrophe theory are pointed out.
指出目前采用突变理论研究岩体动力失稳问题中存在的误区。经济学
- 突变
The evolution development path of telecom industry is analyzed by means of the hypercycle and catastrophe theory.
从超循环和突变的角度对电信产业系统演化发展的实现途径进行分析。 - 大祸
- 灾变
Study confirmed that Three Gorges Area(TGA) has been produced some social system catastrophe characteristics in the process of rapid urbanization,for example structural anomie,stratification and individual poverty.
研究证实三峡库区在快速城镇化进程中产生了结构失范、阶层分化和个体贫困等典型社会系统灾变特征。历史学
- 灾害
The cause of natural catastrophe can be divided into two aspects: the aberrance of nature environment, the harmful factors from human being's activities.
自然灾害的产生究其原因分为自然的变异和人为的不良影响因素。数学
- 突变
- 灾难
- 骤变
- 灾变