灾难

Never before, not even in Velasquez' quixotic portraits of the extended household of the Spanish court, or in the horror of Goya's Disasters of War, had such ugliness been presented without any apparent relation to the nature of the subject and, moreover, seemingly devoid of draughtsmanship or painterly technique.

以前从来没有过，即使在Velasquez唐吉坷德式的关于西班牙宫廷的描绘或是Goya的战争的灾难所展现出的恐怖之中，如此与自然及对象无关的丑陋得以呈现，而且与画师的技巧无关。

Surely, surely, this thing would not drift along to catastrophe and he not find a way out.

事情不可能演变成一场大灾难。他一定会找到一条出路的。

What had he, the one man who grasped at the time all the vast issues of events, to do in the midst of that dull-witted crowd?

库图佐夫周围全是些糊涂虫，只有他一个人才理解当时事件的全部巨大意义，拉斯托普钦伯爵把首都的灾难归咎于他本人或者是归咎于他，这对他有什么关系呢？

But this is not only a dust storm brought about by the disaster.

然而这不仅是沙尘暴带来的灾难。

And could these factors be developing in a manner that will soon produce disasters dwarfing Katrina?

这些因素能否发展为一种模式，未来将会产生出连卡特里娜飓风也相形见绌的更大灾难？

The Utopia, I argue, is not a representation but an operation calculated to disclose the limits of our own imagination of the future, the lines beyond which we do not seem able to go in imagining changes in our own society and world (except in the direction of dystopia and catastrophe).

我认为，乌托邦不是一种表征而是一种作用，旨在揭示我们对未来想象的局限，超越这种局限，我们似乎再不能想象我们自己社会和世界的变化（除非是反乌托邦和灾难方面的变化）。

Tell your partner about a natural disaster you heard about from your e-friend.

告诉你的同伴你从网友那里听来的一个自然灾难的事。

On Friday, American Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed shock at the destruction caused by the earthquake and waves.

在周五，美国国务卿Colin Powell对此次地震和海啸引起的毁灭性灾难表示震惊。

This is the only way to prevent ecological catastrophes.

这是唯一的途径，以防止生态灾难。

Ecologically speaking, this idea is brilliant; economically, it is a disaster.

从生态学的角度来说，这个想法很不错；而从经济学的角度来说，这却是一个灾难。

Lugalbanda was a god and shepherd king of Uruk where he was worshipped for over a thousand years.

Lugalbanda 是神和被崇拜了一千年多 Uruk古埃及喜克索王朝国王。

I am coming just now,' and went on perfuming himself with Hunut, then he came and sat.

我来只是现在，'歼灭战perfuming自己与胡努特，那麼，他来到和SAT 。