catastrophe
/kəˈtæstɹəfi/ 名词 B2中文： 灾难、灾殃、灾害、灾祸
- Any large and disastrous event of great significance. · The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophe.
- A disaster beyond expectations.
- The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
- A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
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The whole assembly were dumb with astonishment at the revelation and confession which had produced a catastrophe so different from that which had been expected during the last fortnight by the Parisian world.
de Morcerf; a pistol-shot seems quite delightful compared with this catastrophe.”
Nevertheless, she managed to take several steps before the catastrophe came.
Such was the third person who was one of the family when the catastrophe occurred.
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