幸运的是，在1972年，通过了一项禁止使用 DDT 的法律，使秃鹰免遭灭顶之灾。
Fortunately, in 1972, a law was passed to ban DDT, which saved the bald eagle from total wipeout.
在20世纪，先是电影，然后是收音机，再然后是电视机，似乎都给书面世界带来了灭顶之灾。
In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to spell doom for the written world.
这将预示这个文明的实在的灭顶之灾。
森林要遭灭顶之灾的传闻已是危言耸听了。
News of the death of forests appears to have been greatly exaggerated.
叛军即将面临灭顶之灾。
他经历了惨痛的失败，这是一场灭顶之灾。
De Lesseps failed spectacularly. It was a complete disaster.
严重的衰退不可避免，但还没有酿成本地区的灭顶之灾。
A very nasty recession is inevitable, but regional catastrophe is not.
欧洲最大的汽车集团也许面临着的是灭顶之灾。
英航意在挽救商务旅行业务，使其免遭灭顶之灾。
然而不管是哪种方法，对病人及其家庭来讲，都是灭顶之灾。
But both ways mean catastrophe to the patient and his family.
他们的研究发现，苹果曾经逃过了一场灭顶之灾。
成千上万的种族希腊人在爱奥尼亚海岸遭到灭顶之灾。
Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Greeks were uprooted from Ionian coastal areas.
冰岛的银行家们同心协力，给他们的国家带来了灭顶之灾。
Iceland's bankers have effectively brought their entire country to ruin.
所有人类已知的鲸类，只要靠近日本，就将遭受灭顶之灾。
Every cetacean known to man is endangered, just by going angwhere near Japan.
里卡多能够看出，除非迅速出现转化，我们很快要遭到灭顶之灾。
Riccardo could see that we were going down the tube in a hurry unless something happened soon.
无法控制的山火燃遍俄罗斯的欧洲区，更使农民雪上加霜，田地面临灭顶之灾。
An uncontrollable wave of wildfires sweeping across European Russia is adding to farmers' woes, threatening their land with destruction.
“逆风而行”是要冒险的，有时可能遭到灭顶之灾，但是在真理问题上不能让步。
Rowing against wind is risky, and sometimes may lead to catastrophe; however, we cannot give in with respect to truth.
任何政客，只要他们预示能源价格会涨上去，就算是用心良好，面临的也是灭顶之灾。
Any politician who promises ever-rising energy prices, even in a good cause, faces obliteration.
很多企业也都在自己对手遭遇灭顶之灾的时候伸出过援手，因为他们懂得什么叫唇亡齿寒。
A lot of enterprises in all their opponents by crowning calamity when helped by, because they know what if the lips are gone.
其中大部分地区要是出了问题，也就是说降雨延迟几周或是一个月，那将意味着一场灭顶之灾。
Most of these are of course the crops which anything can go wrong, a few weeks or four weeks of delay of rainfall would mean a complete debacle.
设定这种“软期限”目的在于让自己能够拥有宝贵的时间来从容应对意外发生的问题，甚至从灭顶之灾中恢复过来。
Setting this kind of soft deadline will give you a crucial grace period to deal with unforeseen problems. You might even have time to recover from outright catastrophes.
“我们不能让地球妥协，我们必须遏制气候继续恶化以致带来灭顶之灾。因此，我们相互之间必须有所妥协，”他提到。
"We cannot compromise with the earth, we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another," he said.
2004年的海啸几乎摧毁了这个国家，造成超过3.0万斯里兰卡人丧生也使得许多沿海社区遭受了灭顶之灾。
The country was also devastated by the 2004 tsunami, which killed more than 30,000 Sri Lankans and wiped out many coastal communities.
2004年的海啸几乎摧毁了这个国家，造成超过3.0万斯里兰卡人丧生也使得许多沿海社区遭受了灭顶之灾。
The country was also devastated by the 2004 tsunami, which killed more than 30,000 Sri Lankans and wiped out many coastal communities.
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