1. The food was cold, and the guests quarreled-the whole dinner was a catastrophe. 食物是冷的,客人们又吵了起来——整个晚宴是一次完全的失败。
2. The company lost its biggest customer and that was a catastrophe for its future. 公司失去了最大的客户,这对它的未来可谓是一大灾难。
3. How to head off that catastrophe should be the dominant policy issue of our time. 如何阻止这种灾难的发生,应当是我们这一时代主要的政策问题。
英英解释
n.
1. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
2. a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
3. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface