| 正面 | 12879.calamity 英 [kə'læmɪtɪ]美 [kə'læməti]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. bell- / -bel => duel ( b- => du- ).2. duo "two" => duel.3. 该词受上面的双重影响。4. 谐音“斗哦，斗恶”。n. 灾难；不幸事件n. (Calamity)人名；(英)卡拉米蒂 例句： 1. He described drugs as the greatest calamity of the age.他称毒品是这个时代最大的祸害。 calamity 灾难来自calamus, 芦苇。指不结实，豆腐渣。 calamity (n.)early 15c., from Middle French calamite (14c.), from Latin calamitatem (nominative calamitas) "damage, loss, failure; disaster, misfortune, adversity," origin obscure. Early etymologists associated it with calamus "straw" (see shawm); but it is perhaps from a lost root preserved in incolumis "uninjured," from PIE *kle-mo-, from base *kel- (1) "to strike, cut" (see holt)." |