【disaster音标】 英[dɪˈzɑ:stə(r)] 美[dɪˈzæstər]
【单词释义】 disaster是什么意思：
n.灾难；彻底的失败；不幸；祸患
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
[单词复数] disasters
【disaster形近词/近似词】
alabaster n.[U] 雪花石膏 adj.雪花石膏（制）的；白净光滑的
master n.主人；大师 v.精通；掌握
plaster n.灰泥，涂墙泥；石膏；膏药 vt.涂以灰泥；在…上敷贴膏药；（用某物）涂抹，覆盖
toaster n. 烤面包炉；吐司炉
headmaster n.校长,男校长
paster n. 贴纸，胶纸；粘贴的人
【单词例句】
◇ As the best candidate, I was appointed to collect and evaluate information for a database about diverse natural disasters, such as hurricanes, typhoons or thunderstorms.
作为最好的候选人，我被委派为一个数据库收集和评估各种自然灾害的信息，例如飓风、台风或雷暴等。
---- A Volcano Eruption
◇ The next day, this event was the headline or main title of all newspapers. With the reporters giving an outline of the disaster, the whole nation was shocked by the damage and the victim’s extreme suffering.
第二天，所有报纸都纷纷以大字标题或主要标题报道了这一事件。记者们描述了灾难的大概情况，全国都被地震的破坏和灾民们极度的苦难所震惊。
◇ The forum said the only way to avoid a disaster is to massively improve the economics and uptake of recycling. That means giving people incentives to collect plastic garbage and recycle, use reusable packaging, and encourage countries to drastically improve their waste collection infrastructure, to avoid plastic garbage leaking into the nature.
该论坛发表声明说，避免这一灾难的唯一途径就是大力改善经济结构，提高循环使用率。这意味着激励人们去回收并循环使用塑料垃圾，使用可重复使用的包装袋，鼓励各国大力改善废物回收设施，以防止塑料垃圾排放到自然环境中。