disaster，calamity，catastrophe，misfortune
这些名词均表示“灾难”或“不幸”之意。
disaster普通用词，指大破坏、痛苦或伤亡。
calamity多指个人的不幸，比disaster严重，强调灾难引起的悲痛以及对于损失的感觉。
catastrophe语气最强，指可怕的灾难，强调最终的结局。
misfortune多指较为严重的不幸，强调不幸多由外界因素所致。
- 词义辨析
- 双语例句
1、
We know instinctively, just as beekeepers with their bees that misfortune might overtake us if the important events of our lives were not related to it.
我们本能地懂得, 正如养蜂人对待蜜蜂一样,如果不把我们生活中的重大事件告诉这条河,我们就会遭到厄运的袭击.
——《用法词典》
2、
There is no other misfortune that could be compared with the loss of time.
没有一种不幸可与失掉时间相比.
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3、
Her career was dogged by misfortune.
她一生屡遭不幸.
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4、
He was dogged by his misfortune.
不幸的事总是纠缠着他.
——《简明英汉词典》
5、
Some of my friends estranged themselves from me in my misfortune.
我倒霉时,有些朋友就疏远了我.
——《简明英汉词典》
6、
We become companion in misfortune from then on.
从那时起,我们就成了患难之交.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
7、
We know instinctively, just as bookeepers with their bees that misfortune might overtake us if the important events of our lives were not related to it.
正如养蜂人与蜜蜂的关系一样,我们本能地懂得如果我们不把自己生活中重大事件告诉它的话,不幸的事情就会袭击我们.
《用法词典》
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There is no highroad to happiness or misfortune ; every man brings them on himself.
祸福无门, 唯人自召[招].
《现代汉英综合大词典》
9、
Misfortune lighted upon him.
他突然遭到不幸.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
10、
Misfortune can be used as an excuse, but Du Toit used it as motivation.
不幸可以作为借口, 而杜托伊特却把它当作动力.
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11、
The worst misfortune that befell her was to bear a succession of girls.
她遭到的最倒霉的事就是一连生了好几个女儿.
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12、
It seems the banks always profit from farmers' misfortunes.
银行似乎总是从农民的不幸中获益。
朗文当代高级英语词典 第6版
13、
It is said to be an omen of misfortune.
那被认为是一种不幸的先兆.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
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His failure in business was due not to misfortune, but to his mistakes.
他生意上的失败不是因为运气差, 而是因为他犯了错误.
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15、
He had his full share of misfortune.
他吃尽了苦头。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
16、
I come now relation of a misfortune which about this time befell Mrs John Dashwood.
现在,我且来讲述大约在这时降临到约翰·达希伍德太太头上的灾祸.
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She seemed to enjoy the misfortunes of others...
她似乎喜欢幸灾乐祸。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
18、
She is not a stranger to misfortune.
她对不幸的经历并不陌生.
《简明英汉词典》
19、
He has known great misfortune in his life.
他一生中经历过巨大的不幸。
牛津高阶英汉双解词典
20、
To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune.
要真正了解一个人,需在不幸察他.
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21、
Sometimes when the bell rang, it was a neighbor who had fallen into misfortune.
有时,按响门铃的会是某个陷于困境的邻居.
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22、
If Miss Catherine had the misfortune to marry him, he would not be beyond her control.
如果凯瑟琳小姐不幸嫁给他, 他不会不听她的指挥的.
辞典例句
23、
Misfortune makes us wise.
不幸使人明智.
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24、
It means to take spiteful , malicious delight in the misfortune of others.
它的意思是把自己的快乐建立在别人的痛苦不幸之上.
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25、
Nothing is a greater misfortune than not being able to bear misfortune.
经不起不幸是最大的不幸.
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26、
Poverty involved his family in misfortune.
贫困使他的家庭陷入不幸.
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27、
The old woman repined at her misfortune.
那老妇人怨叹不幸的遭遇.
《简明英汉词典》
28、
Then she poured out her tale of misfortune.
然后他讲述了自己不幸遭遇.
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29、
We had the misfortune to run into a violent storm.
我们不幸遭遇了猛烈的暴风雨。
牛津高阶英汉双解词典
30、
She bore her misfortunes bravely.
她勇敢地承受不幸的遭遇。
牛津高阶英汉双解词典
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