And,despite continuing bank failures, Geithner says America's financial system has also been rescued and a catastrophic credit squeeze has eased.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

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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That is what makes metal so fascinating, because metallic bonding allows the atoms to glide over one another without resulting in catastrophic failure.

所以这就使得金属具有了特别的性质，因为金属键使得原子可以,在彼此之间流动,而不会千万灾难性的后果。

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"Its failure could have resulted in a 1930s-style global financial and economic meltdown, with catastrophic implications for production, income and jobs,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Smoking is a key example, it took America decades to mobilize after the catastrophic consequences smoking were clear, but when it did, American tobacco companies exploited overseas markets, particularly in the developing world.

吸烟就是一个重要的例子,美国人在吸烟的灾难性后果,已经明确的几十年之后,才采取行动,但在行动时,美国烟草公司已经开拓了海外疆土,尤其在发展中国家

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Naysayers warned of a catastrophic flood should the dam break, but amid the prosperity, the warnings were ignored.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

He says,if Russia had lost the war, the consequences for the country would have been much more catastrophic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Since the 49-year-old suffered catastrophic injuries after separate accidents, he has constantly asked for one thing: the right to die in peace.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

But he said the failures that led to a potentially catastrophic breach in security must be addressed immediately.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

He said government efforts have been geared toward the possibility of a "catastrophic event."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"If both those things happen, it could be catastrophic results on election day."

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

He says it is unlikely that quakes in the capital would be catastrophic.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

It is catastrophic to the natural ecosystem, and a problem for the fishing industry in the U.S., which looks at Asian Carp as an undesirable fish to eat.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

President Obama says he is angry and frustrated by oil executives' response to the catastrophic spill, after a BP oil rig blew up last month off the Louisiana coast.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Southeast Australia is one of the most fire-prone regions anywhere and international experts have been keen to learn from the catastrophic events in the state of Victoria earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

African Union head Jean Ping said Sunday the continent will also be seeking "reparation and damages" from rich nations for the potentially catastrophic effects of rising temperatures on the region.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

The secretary's remarks were echoed by Haitian Prime Minister Michele Duvivier Pierre-Louis, who said Haiti is treading on fragile ground and that without help for economic growth, the consequences will be catastrophic.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

Scientists warn that without an agreement to reduce so-called green house gas emissions, global temperatures will continue to rise, with the catastrophic consequences of extreme weather events, the spread of drought and disease, and the extinction of plant and animal species.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

To some in Washington, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is the master economist whose aggressive actions and creative solutions prevented complete economic collapse in 2008, when major American banks, investment firms,insurance companies, and home mortgage giants were failing at a catastrophic pace.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

"When the skipper on the Ady Gil saw the Shonan Maru moving in to strike him, he put his engines in reverse to get out of the way, which probably saved some of his crew but it ripped the front end of the vessel off and caused catastrophic damage to the Ady Gil,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.06