disastrous

disastrous
adjective
  1. causing great damage
    灾难性的
    a disastrous fire swept through the museum.
    一场火灾扫荡了博物馆。
    ■(informal)highly unsuccessful
    (非正式)非常失败的
    United made a disastrous start to the season.
    联合公司在这个季节开始就很不成功。
派生
disastrously
adverb
语源
  1. late 16th cent. (in the sense 'ill-fated'): from French désastreux, from Italian disastroso, from disastro 'disaster'
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