音标:[kə'tæstrəfɪz] ;
n. 灾祸( catastrophe的复数形式 ); 灾难; 不幸事件; 困难
n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
n. a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
n. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface

Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophes: 当然了,非洲大陆充满了灾难: There are immense ones, such as the horrific rapes in Congo and depressing ones, 有的灾难,比如刚果猖獗的强奸,是无比巨大的; such

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We used to be a nation of farmers. But now it’s less than two percent of the population in the United States. And so, a lot of us don’t know what it takes to grow food. Over 12 thousand years ago

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Mosquito Season Means Zika Season, US Experts Warn It's nearly the start of summer in the U.S. vacation time for families and breeding time for mosquitoes, including the one that carries the Zika virus. Dr. Tom Frieden, the head of the Centers for Di

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: meet an English teacher in the United Arab Emirates. She stopped by the VOA Special English booth at the recent TESOL convention, for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. It took place i

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A quick-thinking stranger helped Maureen Krekian escape one of the worst fire disasters in U.S. history. Time now for StoryCoprs, a project that's traveling the country recording your stories. On this summer day in 1944, a circus in Hartford, Connec

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It exploded with the force of a million nuclear bombs and unleashed the power of the sun. 它爆炸的威力相当于一百万枚核弹,释放出太阳的能量。 It set alight the entire biomass of earth and cooked the atmosphere. 它点燃了地球

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Scientists quickly discovered that these dinosaurs had all died at the same time. 科学家们很快发现了这些恐龙全部是同时死亡的。 Finding the remains in one place could mean only one thing. 在同一地点发现的遗骸只能说明一

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We're stop motion animated Our colors blurred and lines faded And now we see only black and white Come on gotta get through the night We star in these minor catastrophes Ones where the past keeps on creeping up on me Your eyes are sad but you're stil

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown says more British assistance to quake-stricken Haiti is now on the way. Speaking in parliament, the British leader said an unloading vessel from the Royal Navy would be on its way soon and ways of helping the civilian gove

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I think we need to be teaching these skills to kids and adults at every stage of their development, 我认为我们应该向所有小孩和大人都教授这些技巧, if we want to have thinking organizations and a thinking society. 如果我们想要

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The therapies will be improving faster than 治疗法比起治疗法中存在的缺陷 the remaining imperfections in the therapies are catching up with us. 改进得更快。 This is a very important point for me to get across. 这是我想说的非常

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学英语单词
a gemini
Addtl
aligning microscope
appoximate continuity
Arderone
auxiliary firing
body search
bonibells
bubble dancer
bus duct work
bustiers
cancelled ballot ticket
chip shell
coalign
cotton gatherer
crest angle
cronje
cubango
cut-off interval
cycloses
depilators
dip coating process
distance correcting mechanism of range-finder
DMZ hosts
dryhanded
dryness-moistening and phlegm-resolving prescription
Fergusonite-trihydrate
filament emission
fine and microstructure of ocean
galactaric acid
good-times
granados
half-duplex
hyaline cell
hydroxyphenylarsonic acid
inferior carotid ganglia
integrated sounding system (iss)
interface description language
invisible runners
kakortokite
keep your eye on the ball
Koch's node
larch bark extract
line-sequential color-television
liquid breakdown
liquidation statement
long summer
machine-readable texts
maintenance team
matako
mazurek
mesoporous molecular sieve catalyst
monascus
multirelation
Nea Dimmata
night-creams
Nocardiophage
nomo-
nonerupted deciduous teeth
nonreconstructive inversion
nuplex
Ojo de Laguna
Ollantaitambo
operating losses
palilalias
parturiates
party-man
pashminas
payment of royalty
pendulous axis
phylosopher
pickled
population distribution
position modulation
prediction accuracy
purified helium product cooler
repaneled
ruddys
Runamycin
serve the turn
shatterindex
side draw tray
skew pupils
sputtering deposition
stereoscopic rangefinder
sulfatidate
Szabo
tampulbolon
tautomerizm
telc
tilting prevention device
Timpas
to keep your eyes peeled
unchampioned
Uniloy
universal-joint journal
vaccary
Vsign
water-sop
Whitworth standard screw thread
young Turks