| 词汇 | disastrous |
| 释义 | disastrous adjective uk /dɪˈzɑː.strəs/ us /dɪˈzæs.trəs/ C1 extremely bad or unsuccessful: 极其糟糕的；极为失败的；灾难性的 disastrous forSuch a war would be disastrous for the country.这样一场战争会给国家带来灾难性的后果。 This decision will have a disastrous impact on foreign policy.这个决定将对外交政策产生极为不利的影响。 His first attempt was disastrous.他第一次尝试败得很惨。 Synonym fatal not producing a desired result unsuccessfulOur attempts to change the law were unsuccessful. failedThe company went bankrupt pouring money into yet another failed product. badSales have been really bad this quarter. fruitlessAll our pleas that she remain in university were fruitless - she left anyway. unfruitfulThe negotiations were unfruitful. Pollution can have disastrous effects on the delicately balanced ecosystem.污染会对脆弱的生态平衡造成灾难性的破坏。 No matter how disastrous the situation there always seems to be a funny side to it.无论情况有多糟，似乎总有其可笑的一面。 I tried to repaint the kitchen walls with disastrous results.我试图重新粉刷一下厨房的墙，结果却弄得一塌糊涂。 After a disastrous first month in office, many people are beginning to wonder if the new president is up to the job. The cumulative effect of using so many chemicals on the land could be disastrous.使用大量化学物质经年累月会对土地造成灾难性的后果。 Accidents and disasters a disaster waiting to happenidiom accident accidental accidentally accidentally on purposeidiom an accident waiting to happenidiom calamity cataclysm cataclysmic cataclysmically catastrophe disastrously doomsday scenario dumpster fire emergency non-emergency perfect storm post-accident snafu tragedy Related worddisastrously disastrous | American Dictionarydisastrous adjective us/dɪˈzæs·trəs/ causing great harm, damage, or suffering: It was a disastrous mistake which he lived to regret. In 1837, there was a disastrous smallpox epidemic. fig. Something that is disastrous is a complete failure: His attempt to play the piano was disastrous. Examples of disastrousdisastrous The next election (1994) turned out to be disastrous for both parties. Apparently, the abbey had suffered from the loss of seasonal pastures, a recurring but disastrous phenomenon. The arrival of the mail invariably brought details, which gave a darker aspect to this truly disastrous affair. The kinds of concerns we are considering are unlikely to lead to disastrous consequences if our views are not shared. A want of proper circumspection on their part is liable to produce disastrous consequences to railroad travelers, as well as to themselves. The attempts once more to create meaningful national states out of ethnic palimpsests have proven disastrous. The levelling process, through mobility of population and secondary education, has been disastrous for dialect. But this process of separation, fertile for the modern subject to arise, turns out to be disastrous for our environment and perhaps, too, for ourselves. They failed to foresee a substantial drop in their vote and their standard decision rules unexpectedly proved disastrous. Although these renewed efforts at control were no more effective than the half-hearted ones that preceded them, their impact on individual lives was often disastrous. When the emotional context of the child and its parents are considered, the consequences of the stigma of the disease are disastrous. Some planters do not realise the disastrous effects which follow when cane-tops infested with borers are planted. This is a kind of soft real-time constraint since deadlines can be missed without disastrous consequences. For five years social services had been trying to work to remedy a disastrous situation. The goal was to harness science and technology in an effort to make a more just society; the unintended consequences were often disastrous. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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