英 [kəˈtæstrəfi] 美 [kəˈtæstrəfi]
n. 灾难，灾祸；麻烦，困境；惨败
复数catastrophes
catastrophe /kəˈtæstrəfɪ/ CET6 TEM4
可数名词 A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage. 灾难
From all points of view, war would be a catastrophe.
从各个方面来看，战争都会是一场灾难。
突变-引用次数：1437
The mistakes existing in the research of rock dynamic destabilization by using catastrophe theory are pointed out.
指出目前采用突变理论研究岩体动力失稳问题中存在的误区。
参考来源期刊学术社区
突变-引用次数：101
The evolution development path of telecom industry is analyzed by means of the hypercycle and catastrophe theory.
从超循环和突变的角度对电信产业系统演化发展的实现途径进行分析。
大祸
灾变-引用次数：8
Study confirmed that Three Gorges Area(TGA) has been produced some social system catastrophe characteristics in the process of rapid urbanization,for example structural anomie,stratification and individual poverty.
研究证实三峡库区在快速城镇化进程中产生了结构失范、阶层分化和个体贫困等典型社会系统灾变特征。
灾害-引用次数：2
The cause of natural catastrophe can be divided into two aspects: the aberrance of nature environment, the harmful factors from human being's activities.
自然灾害的产生究其原因分为自然的变异和人为的不良影响因素。
参考来源明清时期定西自然灾害研究
突变-引用次数：10
灾难
骤变
灾变
...catastrophe（大灾难）：希腊戏剧的颠覆性结局 这个单词原本是一个希腊戏剧术语，表示“颠覆”。
... cataract 急流，大瀑布;缓冲器 catastrophe 灾害,事故 sudden catastrophe 突然[地质]大变动,突然灾变 ...
... superficial 表面的，地面的，浅的，肤浅的，外表的，表面上的 catastrophe 大灾难，大祸 bankrupt 破产的，彻底缺乏的，使破产，使枯竭，破产者 ...
... catastrophe n. 异常的灾祸 catching adj. 传染性的；有感染力的 categorical adj. 无条件的，绝对的；明确的，直截了当的 ...
catastrophic 灾难的；悲惨的
From all points of view, war would be a catastrophe.
从各个方面来看，战争都会是一场灾难。
Early warnings of rising water levels prevented another major catastrophe.
提前发出的洪水水位上涨警报防止了又一次的重大灾害。
The expulsion of thousands of people represents a humanitarian catastrophe of enormous proportions.
驱逐成千上万人意味着人道主义的巨大灾难。
Addressing central bankers from Europe and elsewhere, Fisher said central banks and national governments averted catastrophe through aggressive intervention.
VOA : standard.2010.04.21
Contrast his images of joyous or demonic assent with the images of catastrophe, of descent, of collapse in Eliot, "London Bridge is falling down."
对比他关于喜悦或着迷的描写,这些都是和灾难，对衰退的描写，或者艾略特描写的崩塌“伦敦桥在倒塌“，相一致的“
现代诗歌课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Katrina was not only a tragedy, it was an envrionmental catastrophe as well.
卡特里娜飓风不仅带来了一场悲剧，同时它也是一场环境灾难。
领导能力简介课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课
"And since it is so much more expensive and so much more difficult to cure, that would be a catastrophe."
VOA : standard.2009.12.09
Bernanke has been praised for taking aggressive action to prevent an economic catastrophe after last year's widespread problems in the financial industry.
VOA : standard.2009.08.25
We came back to Mornei in July to a catastrophe that had no mercy.
It was this that woke the world up to the catastrophe that was unfolding.
Kurzweil's human-machine symbiosis is not a techno-catastrophe but the ultimate liberation from humanity's biological frailties.