disaster

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CET4TEM4IELTS考研TOEFLCET6GRE中頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?disasters;

1. 敵人殺死他.
2. 天降災(zāi)星。
3. disaster???????災(zāi)難，禍害?“他給人民帶來了災(zāi)難，得砸死他”

disaster 災(zāi)難

dis-, 不，非，使相反。-aster, 星星，星辰，詞源同star, asterisk.即星位不正，在古代占星術(shù)中預(yù)示著災(zāi)難降臨。

disaster: disaster: [16] The word disaster has astrological connotations. It comes, perhaps via French désastre, from Italian disastro; this was a backformation from disastrato, literally ‘ill-starred’, a compound adjective formed from the pejorative prefix dis- and astro ‘star’, a descendant of Latin astrum ‘star’. This in turn came from Greek astron ‘star’, source of English astronomy and related to English star. So the underlying meaning of the word is ‘malevolent astral influence’. Proven?al has the parallel malastre ‘misfortune’.
disaster (n.): 1590s, from Middle French désastre (1560s), from Italian disastro "ill-starred," from dis-, here merely pejorative (see dis-) + astro "star, planet," from Latin astrum, from Greek astron (see star (n.)). The sense is astrological, of a calamity blamed on an unfavorable position of a planet.

1. An airliner came close to disaster while approaching Heathrow Airport.: 一架大型客機(jī)在飛近希思羅機(jī)場時差點(diǎn)兒發(fā)生空難。

2. We were in a disaster situation that defies description.: 我們陷入了難以言表的糟糕處境。

3. The President described the disaster as an act of God.: 總統(tǒng)將這場災(zāi)難說成是天災(zāi)。

4. An investigation is underway to find out how the disaster happened.: 調(diào)查已經(jīng)展開，以查明災(zāi)難是如何發(fā)生的。

5. Investors were storing up a lot of cash in anticipation of disaster.: 投資者預(yù)料會出現(xiàn)災(zāi)難，正在儲備大量現(xiàn)金。