tragedy
It may yet be possible to find a peaceful solution to the crisis.
The country is in the midst of an economic crisis.这个国家正在经历一场经济危机。
Talks were held in Madrid about the fuel crisis.有关燃料危机的会谈在马德里召开。
Falling house prices are illustrative of the crisis facing the construction industry.房价的下跌足以说明建筑业所面临的危机。
The two groups will meet next week to try to defuse the crisis.
The media never tire of telling us that Europe is somehow "in crisis".
Plastic surgery is fine for people with a strong self-image but bad for people "in crisis" - getting divorced, coping with a death, or who've just lost a job, for example.

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crisis | American Dictionary

crisis
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈkrɑɪ·sɪs/pluralcrisesus/ˈkrɑɪ·siz/
an extremely dangerous or difficult situation:
[ C ]an economic crisis
[ U ]People react in times of crisis, but ignore us the rest of the time.

crisis | Business English

crisis
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˈkraɪsɪs/uspluralcrises/ˈkraɪsiːz/
a situation that is extremely difficult or dangerous, when there are many problems:
a major/serious/global crisis
an economic/financial/political crisis
a looming/impending/growing crisisThis matter needs to be discussed, in the light of the looming pensions crisis.
cause/create a crisisThe ban, fortunately, did not create a crisis in the dairy industry.
face a crisisThe industry is facing a serious staffing crisis.
a crisis arises/occurs/deepensThis article examines how the debt crisis arose,
address/resolve/solve a crisisA mediator has been called in to resolve the crisis.
The country's leadership is in crisis.
 crisis of confidence
a situation when people become less confident and start to worry:
The company's poor trading figures provoked a crisis of confidence on the stock markets.

Examples of crisis

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Most banking crises can be attributed to negative macroeconomic shocks, including their amplification mechanisms.
Potential crises will be postponed or mitigated as a result.
The state emerges to address these problems and regulate these crises.
Nearly half of the severe events involved marital or other relationship crises and 18 % of the depressed subjects had been recently bereaved.
Cognitive coping repsonse to crises and onset of depression.
During these crises, the financial center will have incentives to implement a policy of restricting flows of specie.
In conjunction with (8), this reasoning also demonstrates how the interest rate on discount window loans determines the potential severity of banking crises.
With the large number of crises that have now occurred, do you think that the facts validated the views we expressed in 1996?
What lessons should we draw from the crises of emerging markets?
Disarmament without providing soldiers with training, as well as help in finding alternative means of livelihood, leads to instability and internal crises.
Most countries that experience financial crises do so more than once.
The escape dynamics is what drives currency crises in our model.
What factors made the food system vulnerable and how were food crises dealt with ?
The strategy of the patent-based industry was to draw attention to other causes of the humanitarian crises in least developed countries.
One effect of the crises of the 1970s was to render obsolete many of the assumptions that had been unchallengeable only a few years earlier.
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Collocations withcrisis

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acute crisis
Another lesson is that an acute crisis may be used by politicians to make unpopular, but in a long-term view important reforms.
banking crisis
Such lending will certainly ease a liquidity-induced bankingcrisis, but it will also have important general equilibrium effects on the economy.
budget crisis
A similar deadlock can occur within a presidential system, where it is also known as a budget crisis.
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