ca.tas.tro.phe
n.(名词)A great, often sudden calamity.See Synonyms at disaster 大灾难:大的,通常是突然的灾难参见 disasterA complete failure; a fiasco:大败:彻底的失败;惨败:例句:The food was cold, the guests quarreled—the whole dinner was a catastrophe.食物是冷的,客人们又吵了起来——整个晚宴是一次彻底的失败
The concluding action of a drama, especially a classical tragedy, following the climax and containing a resolution of the plot.悲剧的结局:戏剧尤指古典悲剧结局部分紧随着高潮发生并且包括情节的解释A sudden violent change in the earth`s surface; a cataclysm.灾变:地表突然而猛烈的变动;灾变
来源:Greek katastrophô [an overturning, ruin, conclusion] 希腊语 katastrophô [推翻,毁灭,结论] from katastrephein [to ruin, undo] 源自 katastrephein [毁灭,使败坏] kata- [cata-] kata- [前缀,表.向下,之下.] strephein [to turn] * see streb(h)- strephein [翻转] *参见 streb(h)-