这形势本来是很可能成为一场大灾难的。

The situation might all too easily have become a disaster.

《牛津词典》

人们还没有完全意识到这场灾难的严重程度。

The full scale of the disaster has yet to sink in.

《牛津词典》

飞行员们不得不采取紧急措施以避免灾难的发生。

The pilots had to take emergency action to avoid a disaster.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I think that tragedies like Hurricane Katrina raised for us theological questions.

那些像卡特里娜飓风之类的灾难,给我们提出了很多神学方面的问题。

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Because it says, your program will still give you a value, but it may not be what you intended, and you can't always tell, and that may propagate it's way down through a whole bunch of other computations before it causes some catastrophic failure.

因为这意味着，你的程序依然会返回一个值，但是这个值可能不是你想要的，你可能还分辨不出来，而且这种情况会传播,结果会沿着正果计算过程传播下去,直到产生一个灾难性的错误。

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In The Epic of Gilgamesh we have no motive given for the divine destruction whatsoever. It just seems to be pure capriciousness.

在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，并没有引起这场大灾难的原因,似乎就像是一场自然灾难。

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