- 1
A calamity is a terrible event you did not see coming, and that leaves a lot of damage or suffering behind — a flood, a war, a crash, a harvest that fails. It is a strong, slightly formal word. Newspapers and speeches like it; friends telling a story may say disaster or catastrophe instead. You can stretch it, with a little humour, for a personal mess (“Losing my keys was a calamity”), though some people feel that is too large a word for a small problem. From Middle French calamité, from Latin calamitās, “loss, damage, disaster”. The matching describing word is .
災禍、大災難
組成From Middle French calamité, from Latin calamitās, “loss, damage; disaster”.
同家族的字
- calamitousthe adjective: full of, or causing, calamity
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
calamitynoun/kəˈlæmɪti/
- 1
An event resulting in great loss.
- Romeo come forth / Come forth thou fearfull man, / Affliction is enamor’d of thy parts: / And thou art wedded to calamitie.
- Yet, at that moment, she felt as if the acquisition of these gems were a calamity. Their possession involved separation from her uncle, from every relic of home affections, and from all that yet lingered with her of her childhood.
- 2
The distress that results from some disaster.
- They were behind twice, first in the 11th minute when James Morrison scored a goal that was a personal calamity for Hart, and then four minutes into the second half when Kenny Miller eluded Gary Cahill to score with a splendid left-foot drive.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。