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cataclysmic adj.灾难性的；剧变的 (1) 事实证明，这些力量聚合在一起产生的后果是灾难性的。(2) 它发生的像闪电那样快，排山倒海那样猛！(3) 这便是为什么，今年早些时候，工业生产数据发生了巨幅震荡。 Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, tornados, landslide . . . These natural disasters are often described as cataclysmic when they cause great devastation. Cataclysmic isn't just for describing natural disasters — personal disasters can be called cataclysmic as well if you want to emphasize just how badly something turned out. If your meatloaf is just so-so, it’s not so disastrous. But if it’s so spectacularly bad that no one can eat it? That’s a cataclysmic failure.

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英 [ˌkætə'klɪzmɪk] 美 [ˌkætə'klɪzmɪk] (1) Together, these forces proved cataclysmic.(2) It all happened with the speed of lightning and with cataclysmic violence.(3) That was why the numbers for industrial production looked so cataclysmic earlier this year. Something that’s cataclysmic is violently destructive. The word often refers to natural disasters, like a cataclysmic earthquake, but cataclysmic can describe other events as well as long as they’re bad enough, like the cataclysmic failure you had making meatloaf. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]灾难性的；引起巨大变化的 A cataclysmic event is one that changes a situation or society very greatly, especially in an unpleasant way.   [FORMAL 正式]...the cataclysmic events that were destroying his faith in humanity...摧毁他对人性的信念的灾难性事件Few had expected that change to be as cataclysmic as it turned out to be.没有几个人料到那个变化会如此翻天覆地。

英语单词	cataclysmic
英美音标	英 [ˌkætə'klɪzmɪk] 美 [ˌkætə'klɪzmɪk]
中文释义	adj.灾难性的；剧变的
英语例句	(1) Together, these forces proved cataclysmic. (2) It all happened with the speed of lightning and with cataclysmic violence. (3) That was why the numbers for industrial production looked so cataclysmic earlier this year.
中文例句	(1) 事实证明，这些力量聚合在一起产生的后果是灾难性的。 (2) 它发生的像闪电那样快，排山倒海那样猛！ (3) 这便是为什么，今年早些时候，工业生产数据发生了巨幅震荡。
vocabulary简明	Something that’s cataclysmic is violently destructive. The word often refers to natural disasters, like a cataclysmic earthquake, but cataclysmic can describe other events as well as long as they’re bad enough, like the cataclysmic failure you had making meatloaf.
vocabulary扩展	Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, tornados, landslide . . . These natural disasters are often described as cataclysmic when they cause great devastation. Cataclysmic isn't just for describing natural disasters — personal disasters can be called cataclysmic as well if you want to emphasize just how badly something turned out. If your meatloaf is just so-so, it’s not so disastrous. But if it’s so spectacularly bad that no one can eat it? That’s a cataclysmic failure.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]灾难性的；引起巨大变化的 A cataclysmic event is one that changes a situation or society very greatly, especially in an unpleasant way. [FORMAL 正式] ...the cataclysmic events that were destroying his faith in humanity... 摧毁他对人性的信念的灾难性事件 Few had expected that change to be as cataclysmic as it turned out to be. 没有几个人料到那个变化会如此翻天覆地。

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