Contrast his images of joyous or demonic assent with the images of catastrophe, of descent, of collapse in Eliot, "London Bridge is falling down."

对比他关于喜悦或着迷的描写,这些都是和灾难，对衰退的描写，或者艾略特描写的崩塌“伦敦桥在倒塌“，相一致的“

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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。

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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。

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Catastrophe is a downturn. So that is the cation.

灾难表示衰退，所以那就是正离子。

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This is not--This is a catastrophe.

这无疑是一场灾难。

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You know from catastrophe, cata is Greek for down.

从大灾难这个词知道，希腊人用cata表示下降。

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