catastrophe
灾难,浩劫,灾害,灾难性的
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Definitions
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- : a sudden and widespread disaster: the catastrophe of war.
- : any misfortune, mishap, or failure; fiasco: The play was so poor our whole evening was a catastrophe.
- : a final event or conclusion, usually an unfortunate one; a disastrous end: the great catastrophe of the Old South at Appomattox.
- : the point at which the circumstances overcome the central motive, introducing the close or conclusion; dénouement.Compare catastasis, epitasis, protasis.
- : Geology. a sudden, violent disturbance, especially of a part of the surface of the earth; cataclysm.
- : Also called catastrophe function. Mathematics. any of the mathematical functions that describe the discontinuities that are treated incatastrophe theory.
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Both are important, but the focus of this piece is preventing further catastrophe.
Those factors have lead to a surge in trading for catastrophe bonds in the past few days, according to Artemis.
We’ve shown that there are lots of smart, relatively cheap things we can do now to reduce the risk of another catastrophe like this one.
The public health crisis has led to an economic catastrophe.
Once again the federal government is fumbling its response to a catastrophe that disproportionately affects Black people, and once again officials are using stories about looting to place the blame on Black victims of police violence.
The director left then; he could see the impending catastrophe.
The 1986 Chernobyl disaster is widely considered to be the greatest nuclear catastrophe in world history.
In turn, this economic catastrophe subsequently led to the rise of the Nazi party.
But a Western policy that is blind to the urgent need for reform and justice is certain to end in catastrophe.
This is a critical system that leaves you one failure away from catastrophe, as in this case.
To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.