该政府把自己带到了财政灾难的边缘。

The government brought itself to the brink of fiscal disaster.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

你对发生灾难的原因有何评论？

Have you any comment to make about the cause of the disaster?

《牛津词典》

她此时的出现是灾难的预兆。

Her appearance at this moment is an omen of 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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