calamities

常见例句

用作名词 (n.)

• Calamity stalks in that country.
  灾难在那个国家蔓延。
• If we had been careful such a calamity would not have befallen us.
  假如我们谨慎的话，这种灾难不会降临到我们的头上。
• The marriage proved to be the greatest calamity of his life.
  事实证明这桩婚姻是他一生中最大的不幸。
• It will be a calamity if I fail my exam.
  这次考试如果通不过我就惨了。
• They kept a record of earthquake calamity.
  他们记录地震所发生的灾祸。

～+ prep. -phrase

• I am afraid my report for the past year is not a very cheerful one,it is the story of one calamity on the back of another.
  恐怕我关于去年的报告不令人愉快,那是一个接一个的灾难故事。
• The frost last week was a great calamity to the citrus industry.
  上周的霜冻对柑橘种植业是一场大灾难。
• The spring floods were a great calamity to the farmers whose crops and homes were ruined.
  这场春季洪水对那些房屋和庄稼被毁的农民来说是一场大灾难。
• The loss of the ship was a calamity to the navy.
  该船的沉没为海军的一大不幸。

用作名词 (n.)

• The recent flooding in the south was a calamity.
  最近南方的洪水是一场灾难。
• She is always on the alert for some new calamity.
  她总是保持警觉以防某种新的灾难。
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