But the ACLU's statement, like the congressional vote, occurred before last week's potential catastrophe on a U.S.-bound jet.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

This is not--This is a catastrophe.

这无疑是一场灾难。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Katrina was not only a tragedy, it was an envrionmental catastrophe as well.

卡特里娜飓风不仅带来了一场悲剧，同时它也是一场环境灾难。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

It warns of a nearing catastrophe. For Intifar's father, Mahmoud Abu Ibrahim,a farmer in his 80s whose crops depend on rainfall, the catastrophe is here.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

What better way to drive home the point that inhumanity and violence undermine the very foundations of society than to describe a situation in which a cosmic catastrophe results from human corruption and violence.

我们应该铭记在心的一点是,任何非人道的行为都会侵蚀人类社会存在的根基,而不是简单的描述一个人类因其堕落和血腥,招致的一场大灾难的场景。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So it's a major, not only an environmental, but human catastrophe."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Catastrophe is a downturn. So that is the cation.

灾难表示衰退，所以那就是正离子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"As a human being and particularly as a citizen of the only country ever to suffer such a nuclear catastrophe, I believe with all my heart and soul that these horrific weapons must be eliminated."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

"That is including Iraq, Afghanistan,etc. So,the scale of violations that have been committed there and the scale of active killing and death due to a lack of humanitarian service, access to health,etc., exceeds any other catastrophe on the Planet."

VOA: standard.2009.09.12