英 [dɪˈzɑːstə(r)] 美 [dɪˈzæstər]
n. 灾难，灾害；祸患，灾难性事物；彻底的失败
复数disasters
disaster /dɪˈzɑːstə/ CET4 TEM4
可数名词 A disaster is a very bad accident such as an earthquake or a plane crash, especially one in which a lot of people are killed. 灾难
It was the second air disaster in the region in less than two months.
这是不到两个月内该地区内的第2起空难。
可数名词 If you refer to something as a disaster, you are emphasizing that you think it is extremely bad or unacceptable. 极为糟糕的事; 不能接受的事
The whole production was just a disaster!
整部作品简直是一团糟！
不可数名词 Disaster is something which has very bad consequences for you. 灾祸
The government brought itself to the brink of fiscal disaster.
该政府把自己带到了财政灾难的边缘。
习语 If you say that something is a recipe for disaster, you mean that it is very likely to have unpleasant consequences. 祸端
You give them a gun, and it's a recipe for disaster.
你给他们一把枪，那就是祸端。
a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
his policies were a disaster
同义词： catastrophe
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
the earthquake was a disaster
同义词： calamity / catastrophe / tragedy / cataclysm
an act that has disastrous consequences
灾害-引用次数：2067
Rockburst is a kind of geological disaster attributed to dynamic instability.
岩爆是一种动力失稳地质灾害。
参考来源期刊学术社区
灾害-引用次数：659
The estimating model of urban disaster comprehensive risk is set up.
建立了城市灾害综合风险评价模型。
灾难-引用次数：262
Effective data backup and disaster recovery data is the field of data storage solution.
有效的进行数据备份和数据灾难恢复是数据存储领域的一个重点需要解决的问题。
病害-引用次数：22
灾荒-引用次数：80
Economic development had in turn give the famine and disaster good or bad impacts.
而经济的发展反过来也给灾荒的发生和减灾救荒造成了或好或坏的影响。
参考来源隋唐时期灾荒经济研究
天灾-引用次数：22
In the late Qing Dynasty,the socioeconomic development of Guangzhou was in the lead in our country. But the natural and man-made disasters were continually occurring,fire disaster was a case in point.
晚清广州社会经济的发展仍居于全国前列,但天灾人祸也接连不断,火灾的频繁发生即是例证。
劣海胆属
...的定义，任何造成了环境破环，经济损失，人员严重伤亡的事件，如果其破坏力超过了当地可承受能力，需要向外界救援的时候，灾害就发生了。所以，灾害（disaster）是对能够给人类和人类赖以生存的环境造成破坏性影响的事物总称。
[查看详情] 事故灾难 事故灾难（disaster）是具有灾难性后果的事故，是在人们生产、生活过程中发生的，直接由人的生产、生活活动引发的，违反人们意志的、迫使活动暂时或永...
) :any extreme misfortune bringing great loss and sorrow；disaster极大的不幸，不幸事件；灾祸 deplorable ( adj.) :that can or should be deplored：lamentable；regrettable可叹的；可惜的；令人惋惜的，令人遗憾的 .
... mainland大陆 disaster灾难；祸患 crew全体船员 ...
A disaster was narrowly averted.
及时防止了一场灾难。
Disaster threatens on every side.
灾祸四伏。
This will surely end in disaster.
这无疑将以灾难告终。
The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center says traditional crops like these can survive the fierce storms that often strike the islands.
VOA : special.2010.02.09
A sadder story of disaster at sea was never told than that of the survivors of the yacht, Mignonette.
最惨绝人寰的海难,“木犀草号“幸存者的骇人经历。
公正课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
They're essentially more risky and more-- regulators have to watch them more because they're standing at higher probability- a monoline--of some major disaster.
单线保险公司风险更大,监管机构对其监管更严,因为他们遇到危机的,可能性更大
金融市场课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Critics say this graphic novel artfully expresses the survivors' bravery and shows what it was like to live through this disaster.
VOA : special.2010.01.22
Before the disaster, it suffered from high death rates among babies and high rates of H.I.V./AIDS,hepatitis and other communicable diseases.
VOA : special.2010.02.01
Or take the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, an unmitigated disaster, according to ecologists.
What they missed the most in a disaster is the photographs when they go.
But depending on where you live and whom you ask, lawn-care may well be causing ecological disaster.