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disaster

英 [dɪ'zɑːstə] 美[dɪ'zæstɚ]

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n. 灾难，灾祸；不幸

考试真题

And a disaster has hit Detroit.

After financial disasters family members also tend to do whatever they can to help each other and their communities, A 1940 book.

This slippery slope of eroding ethics and bigger risks leads only to disaster.

a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum's report was "a methodological embarrassment" because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受伤害的) regions.

But the report, he said, "will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed (有瑕疵的).

Economic trends have to do with population and natural disasters

Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book.

Its ability to ward off disasters is incredible.

But soon Smith is reporting the news even before it happens—and it's all terrible—one disaster after another.

In a 2011 USPS case study, the agency emphasized its massive infrastructure as a "unique federal asset" to be called upon in a disaster or terrorist attack.

Mail companies are logistics companies, which puts them in a special position to help when disaster strikes.

Private courier companies, which have more dollars to spend, use their expertise in logistics to help revitalize damaged areas after a disaster.

Private postal companies also support disaster relief efforts by distributing urgent supplies.

Rebuilding can take a long time, and even then, impressions of the disaster may still remain.

There is a view that modern humans are inevitably sowing the seeds of a global Grand Banks-style disaster.

The negative impacts of natural disasters can be seen everywhere.

A study by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters finds that, between 1980 and 2007, nearly 8,400 natural disasters killed more than twomillion people.

Left alone, it was assumed, the world's rain forests would not only flourish but might even rescue us from disaster by absorbing the excess carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases.

Disaster movies often portray catastrophes that destroy, or at least threaten to destroy earth's entire population.

I want to photograph the disaster waiting to happen.

It’s the mother of all disaster drills for what could be the worst disaster in American history.

Love, who is director of Weather and disaster risk Reduction at the World Meteorological Organization, says most of the deaths and economic losses were caused by weather, climate, or water-related extremes.

On the exercise’s website, officials explain that the report they prepare during this rehearsal will inform disaster management for years to come.

You wrote in the book: "I don't want to photograph the disaster."

A disaster can change everything in life.

According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.

By tracking people's e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.

I rode hard and fast home to tell my mother about this disaster.

If Balto failed, it would mean disaster for Nome.

In any given story of corruption or disaster, a thoughtful reader may receive not only the immediate reward of indirect experience, but also the delayed reward of information and preparedness.

In general, the kind of news which may be expected to give immediate reward are news of crime and corruption, accidents and disasters, sports, social events, and human interest.

It was a disaster for printers.

Mohammed Rezwan saw opportunity where others saw only disaster.

Since the poorest are least likely to make up for their losses from disasters linked to el nino, reducing their losses needs to be the priority.

Some people fear such changes will be for the worse, while some see chances, not disaster.

The cars that drove the American dream have helped to create a global ecological disaster.

Though heavy rains brought about by el nino may relieve the drought in California, they are likely to cause surface flooding and other disasters.

Though the relationship may not be causal, helping divided communities to prepare for disasters would at least reduce the risk that those disasters are followed by killing and wounding people.

Three weeks ago, I witnessed a small near-disaster a few miles west of here.

The principle of British welfare is no longer that you can insure yourself against the risk of unemployment and receive unconditional payments if the disaster happens.

No one tries harder than the jobless to find silver linings in this national economic disaster.

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