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catastrophic如何读

英：[ ˌkætəˈstrɒfɪk]

美：[ ˌkætəˈstrɑːfɪk]

catastrophic是什么意思

adj. (形容词)

悲惨的
灾难的
激变的
惨败的
大突变（灾难）的
悲惨结局的
大变动的
灾难性的
惨重的

catastrophic词根

词根：catastrophe

n.

catastrophe 大灾难；大祸；惨败

catastrophic英英释义

adjective

causing destruction, devastation, or very great distress; ruinous; disastrous.The tsunami was a catastrophic event that took many lives and caused untold destruction.Her husband's death was catastrophic to her; she never fully recovered from it.

extensive with respect to amount of destruction or negative impact.This event will have catastrophic consequences.The damage to the building was catastrophic.

catastrophic词组

catastrophic failure突变失效；灾难性故障

catastrophic词源中文解释

"与灾难有关或具有灾难性质的"，1824年，来自 catastrophe + -ic。相关词汇： Catastrophical； catastrophically。

catastrophic词源英文解释

Greek katastrophē, from katastrephein to overturn, from kata- + strephein to turn

The first known use of catastrophe was in 1540

catastrophic儿童词典英英释义

catchmentnoun

the action of catching water

something that catches water

catchingadjective

infectious

the flu is catching

catchyadjective

likely to attract attention

easily remembered

catchy lyrics

tricky sense 2

a catchy question

catchernoun

one that catchesespecially: a baseball player who plays behind home plate

catchallnoun

something to hold a variety of odds and ends

catch1 of 2verb

to capture or seize in flight or motion catch a ball

catch butterflies

trap entry 2 sense 1a

to discover unexpectedly

was caught in the act

to stop suddenly

caught himself before he gave away the secret

to take hold of : snatch

to get entangled

catch a sleeve on a nail

to have the parts connect firmly

this lock will not catch

to attach, join, or fasten tightly

to fall sick with

catch a cold

to take or get for a short time or quickly catch a little sleep

catch a glimpse of a friend

to catch up to

will have to hurry to catch the leaders

to get aboard in time

catch the bus

understand sense 1a

didn't catch what she said

to play baseball as a catcher

catch2 of 2noun

something caught

the quantity caught at one time

a large catch of fish

the act of catching

a pastime in which a ball is thrown and caught

something that checks, fastens, or holds immovable

a catch on a door

one worth discovering or finding

a round for three or more voices

a hidden difficulty

there must be a catch

catboatnoun

a sailboat with a single mast set far forward and a single large sail with a long boom

catbirdnoun

a dark gray American songbird with a black cap and a reddish underside of the base of the tail

catastrophenoun

a sudden disaster

complete failure : fiasco

catastrophic 例句

1 This could be catastrophic.

这将是毁灭性的灾难。

2 an area on the brink of catastrophe

3 The North Korean government had been forced—by catastrophic famine in the mid-1990s and the importance of Chinese foodstuffs in feeding the population—to tolerate a porous border with China.

4 What I identify as anxiety takes the form of months-long periods of catastrophic fear, falling years apart.

5 Both stories are about two married couples from different social classes who fall into a catastrophic argument involving their respective children.

6 So, while a person may appear preserved, on a cellular level the damage is catastrophic.

7 In this digressive, scathingly funny novel, a middle-aged Spanish man, Joan-Marc Miró-Puig, records the story of his catastrophic first marriage to Helen, an alcoholic from Montana.

8 The oil spill was an environmental catastrophe.

9 The water shortage in this country is potentially catastrophic.

该国水资源的匮乏很可能是灾难性的。

10 In the Belgian Congo and Uganda the results of heavy applications of DDT against an insect pest of the coffee bush were almost “catastrophic.”

11 But somehow, in the aftermath of the catastrophic financial crisis in 2008, not a single individual miscreant was brought to the bar of justice.

12 The contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic.

换上严重疾病很可能会是一场经济灾难。

13 I’m feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

14 The only option would be a catastrophic default.

届时唯一的选择将是灾难性的违约。

15 Nonetheless, the simple existence of the Indian slave trade— thousands of native men and women working in bondage for Europeans—was a testament to Indians’ catastrophic loss of power and status.

16 Then came the lowest point of all – the trio reformed again last year, turning up on an Australian morning show to perform a version of Reach so catastrophic that it's genuinely difficult to sit through.

17 "We were able to foil a potentially catastrophic event the likes of which the city of Tampa has never seen," Jane Castor, Tampa police chief, told a news conference.

18 On the one hand conservationists and many wildlife biologists assert that the losses have been severe and in some cases even catastrophic.

19 But the true Nakba was not the founding of the state of Israel but the Palestinians’ catastrophic rejection of the opening to create a state of their own.

20 The effects of global warming, while not immediate, are potentially catastrophic.

全球气温上升的后果虽然并非即时发生，但可能潜伏着大灾难。