单词详解

n.

A. 灾难，灾祸 (a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune)

The researchers kept a record of earthquake disasters. 研究人员记录地震所引发的灾害。

B. 彻底的失败 (an event resulting in great loss and misfortune)

Her career is a story of utter disaster. 她在事业上一事无成。

相关词组

1. natural disaster 自然灾难，自然灾害

Farmers overcame the natural disaster and got in a bumper harvest.

农民们战胜了自然灾害并获得了丰收。

2. disaster area 灾区

To date the couple has no news from the disaster area.

迄今为止，这对夫妇没有得到任何来自受灾地区的消息。

相关单词

复数：disasters

同义词：tragedy, evil, calamity, grief

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词语辨析：disaster, misfortune

disaster, misfortune

这两个名词均表示“灾难，不幸”之意。

disaster: 普通用词，指大破坏、痛苦或伤亡。

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

词语详解

1. disaster: 普通用词，指大破坏、痛苦或伤亡。

Her career is a story of utter disaster. 她在事业上一事无成。

2. 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 had the misfortune to break his left arm.

他不幸把左胳膊摔断了。