But the president says health care costs have put the federal budget on a "disastrous path."

VOA: special.2009.05.15

The very idea of divine providence, when it's injected into the story of Adam and Eve's perfectly disastrous choice to eat the apple, seems to arouse in a lot of us feelings of injustice.

天命的想法，当深深植入到亚当夏娃的故事中,植入到他们决定偷吃禁果的毁灭性的决定里去时，似乎让我们有种不公平的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They shared fun with firecrackers, which was a disastrous thing which nearly brought the experiment to an end.

让他们一起玩烟花，结果变成一场大灾难,差点害得连实验都做不下去了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Many merchants,stung by last year's disastrous showing, kept smaller inventories and did not have to slash prices to sell their products.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

And they tried this in 1825 with disastrous results; but, this was his first great book.

在1825年他们试了一回结果很糟,不过,这是他的处女作

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Mr.Medvedev was asked whether he had given Mr.Obama advice on Afghanistan, which the former Soviet Union had invaded in 1979 with disastrous results.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

And of course the result has been disastrous.

当然，结果是灾难性的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

At this time, if America is on the wrong side of history, that will be disastrous.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

s been disastrous in Iraq, even in Afghanistan.

我们把伊拉克弄得一塌糊涂，It’,甚至在阿富汗也是一样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"This was the most disastrous decision taken by this government, a decision in which Gordon Brown was not only in the room, but signed all the checks,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

Krishnan says bribery by western companies can be disastrous to developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

But it turned out". "We did get back into positive growth territory by the end of the year so it wasn't quite as disastrous as I feared it might be."

VOA: standard.2010.01.15