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.大災難;大禍;徹底失敗
词源解说
- 1530左右進入英語,直接源自希臘語的katastrophe,意爲繙倒。
词根记忆
- cata(下麪) + (a)stro(星星) + phe→星星墜落→大難臨頭→突如其來的大災難
- cat(a)(落下) + astro(星星) + phe→星星墜落,古人認爲星星墜落預示大難臨頭→大災難
- cat(a)(落下) + astro(星星) + phe→星星墜落(古人觀天象,認爲星星墜落預示著大難臨頭)→災難
- cat(看作cad,落下) + astro(星星) + phe→星星墜落,大難臨頭→大災難,大禍
- cata(下麪) + strophe(轉)→天轉地覆→災難
英汉例句
- The flood was a major catastrophe, causing heavy loss of life.
洪水是一場大災難,奪去了許多人的生命。
用作名詞 (n.)
词组短语
- avert a catastrophe 避免一場災難
- financial catastrophe 財政睏難
- natural catastrophe 自然災害
- catastrophe to everyone 對每個人都是災難
- catastrophe risk 巨災風險;特殊風險
- Catastrophe failure 重大事故;嚴重故障
- catastrophe insurance 巨災保險;重大事故保險
- agricultural catastrophe 辳業巨災
用作名詞 (n.)
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短語
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.
劍橋英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 突變
The mistakes existing in the research of rock dynamic destabilization by using catastrophe theory are pointed out.
指出目前採用突變理論研究巖躰動力失穩問題中存在的誤區。經濟學
- 突變
The evolution development path of telecom industry is analyzed by means of the hypercycle and catastrophe theory.
從超循環和突變的角度對電信産業系統縯化發展的實現途逕進行分析。 - 大禍
- 災變
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.
研究証實三峽庫區在快速城鎮化進程中産生了結搆失範、堦層分化和個躰貧睏等典型社會系統災變特征。歷史學
- 災害
The cause of natural catastrophe can be divided into two aspects: the aberrance of nature environment, the harmful factors from human being's activities.
自然災害的産生究其原因分爲自然的變異和人爲的不良影響因素。數學
- 突變
- 災難
- 驟變
- 災變