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calamitously adverb uk /kəˈlæm.ɪ.təs.li/ us /kəˈlæm.ə.t̬əs.li/ in a way that causes great damage or suffering: 灾难性地 A space shuttle calamitously blew up in the early days of the programme.在该计划的早期,一架航天飞机发生了灾难性的爆炸。 Share prices fell calamitously last year.去年发生了股灾。 See
calamity Calamitously, the carefully chosen works were all lost in the fire. Local schools have been calamitously underfunded. Frank Zappa's eccentric methods of writing and recording were time-consuming and calamitously costly. The calamitously slow response to the hurricane caused many people additional hardship. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Accidents and disasters accident accidental accidentally accidentally on purposeidiom an accident waiting to happenidiom cataclysm cataclysmic cataclysmically catastrophe catastrophic disastrous disastrously doomsday scenario dumpster fire emergency non-emergency perfect storm post-accident snafu tragedy |