On August fifth,nineteen forty-nine, he was involved in a disaster at a forest fire near Helena,Montana.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

One is a disaster, the other interpretation is an opportunity.

一个认为是灾难，另一个则当成机遇。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

If you smoke, that's a disaster. Can't smoke here.

如果你抽烟，那是个灾难。这里不准吸烟。

生活费很高 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Presidents Bush and Clinton will help the American people to do their part, because responding to a disaster must be the work of all of us.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Or we've got to stay together for appearance's sake or we'd better stay together because financially it would be a disaster if we don't or all of the reasons other than intimacy and passion that people might commit to each other.

或者为了顾全家庭的脸面,最好还是生活在一起,如果任由关系破裂，经济上对双方是一个灾难,各种原因不解释，惟独不包括亲近和激情,两个人承诺在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The authorities have declared large stretches of normally white-sand beaches along the popular surf region of the Sunshine Coast a disaster zone, as well as Moreton and Bribie islands, which are national parks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

no immediate problem but if this continues onto the end of the decade, re approaching right now, there is going to be a disaster.

不会有立竿见影的问题,但如果继续这样做的话，十年以后，也就是我们现在这个时候，which，is，what，we’,会发生灾难。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

"We have to improve health care in general for everyday need and everyday purposes and if it does not work on an everyday basis of course in a crisis or in a disaster it is not going to suddenly work better,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

A sadder story of disaster at sea was never told than that of the survivors of the yacht, Mignonette.

最惨绝人寰的海难,“木犀草号“幸存者的骇人经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

This is a potentially catastrophic disaster and the images of destruction and flooding coming out of Japan are simply heartbreaking.

VOA: special.2011.03.12

They're essentially more risky and more-- regulators have to watch them more because they're standing at higher probability- a monoline--of some major disaster.

单线保险公司风险更大,监管机构对其监管更严,因为他们遇到危机的,可能性更大

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Gallery Director Joe Earle says much of the exhibit suggests a sense of human powerlessness and future disaster.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

A notion that the Greeks would have regarded as dangerously arrogant and certain to produce disaster.

这个主张被古希腊人当做,危险,骄横并会带来灾难的观点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now,American states along the Gulf of Mexico are fearing a different kind of environmental disaster.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

Now,every time there's a big time political disaster, from the point of view of the Catholic Church in France, it's followed by a period of religious revival.

于是,每当天主教会看到法国政治格局,有重大的变盘,紧接着就会兴起宗教复兴

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

a personal story about the disaster by Jon Krakauer.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

But this spring is a struggle with disaster.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

Haskins gives the president a "D" for his spending policies even though he admits it may have averted a bigger disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

He promised a full investigation of the disaster, and said that petroleum giant BP will be held responsible for the accident.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

All proceeds will go to disaster relief in Haiti through a newly-formed charity called the We Are The World Foundation.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

The disaster comes as Obama administration attempts to chart a course toward U.S.energy independence and less reliance on fossil fuels.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

In the past decade an average of almost 400 events each year have met the U.N.criteria for a natural disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

Crew member Kenneth Leahey says working in the midst of the disaster meant the ship had a great impact.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Prime Minister Tertius Zongo is appealing for more than repair road damage, pay for humanitarian assistance and develop a better disaster-response system.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

The disaster sparked a row over protection measures against flooding with local officials accusing the government of ignoring their appeals for funds.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

"She's become unstable." "This is the disaster everyone warns about: a new species set loose in the world."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

He tells VOA that the natural disaster could not have happened at a worse time for Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

We are all aware of that." Law Minister Veerappa Moily says India does not have a law to deal with a mass disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

"So they have themselves experienced what it is like to be survivors of a devastating natural disaster."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

"Actually,in Afghanistan, we have large families which have been destroyed, and that is a great disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24