catastrophe是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 大灾难； (悲剧) 结局，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We have not the slightest indication of the place, meantime, nor of where the catastrophe happened."
-- "Have we mistaken the place where the catastrophe occurred?"
-- What fresh catastrophe had happened now?
-- Two hours afterward Cape Catastrophe was out of sight.
-- Now, the date of the catastrophe was within two years.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed to him that something ex-traordinary, some sudden catastrophe had occurred, and that he was almost the cause of it, because he had read the article aloud.
-- It is much better for the writer, as a rule, to content himself with the bare statement of events; and we shall take this line with regard to the catastrophe recorded above, and shall state the remaining events connected with the general's trouble shortly, because we feel that we have already given to this secondary character in our story more attention than we originally intended.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was about seven or eight weeks after my landing, rather more, I think, though I had not troubled to keep account of the time, when this catastrophe occurred.
-- I told him that some serious thing must have happened to Moreau by this time, or he would have returned before this, and that it behoved us to ascer- tain what that catastrophe was.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you know, I was so wild about her at that time that if she had told me to poison Marfa Petro-vna or to cut her throat and to marry herself, it would have been done at once!But it ended in the catastrophe of which you know already.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the inevitable catastrophe could only be retarded, and if land did not appear before night, voyagers, car, and balloon must to a certainty vanish beneath the waves.
-- They observed, with emotion, all that part to the north of the coast on which the catastrophe had taken place.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the majority such an opinion is shelved with all those trite aphorisms which require some catastrophe to bring their tremendous meanings thoroughly home.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vicksburg's loss would be no catastrophe if Lee won in the East.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very well!suppose this weapon to be six times stronger and the animal ten times more powerful; launch it at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and you obtain a shock capable of producing the catastrophe required.
-- "As you spoke a while ago of the passage of the Israelites and of the catastrophe to the Egyptians, I will ask whether you have met with the traces under the water of this great historical fact?"
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What an awful catastrophe Kamensky met with," said Wolf.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle and I looked at one another with wild and haggard eyes; we clung convulsively to the stump of the mast, which, at the moment when the catastrophe took place, had snapped short off.
-- I could only look forward to an immediate catastrophe, such a catastrophe as not even the most vivid imagination could have thought of.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His garb of woe suggested that he had lost in one catastrophe every relation he had in the world, even to cousins by marriage twice removed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are engagements to be met, this week, which would bring the catastrophe before many days were over, even if I would postpone it for a single day by going on for that space, secretly knowing what I know.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo accepted it with a smile, for she had never outgrown her liking for lads, and soon found herself involved in the usual labyrinth of love, mystery, and murder, for the story belonged to that class of light literature in which the pas-sions have a holiday, and when the author's invention fails, a grand catastrophe clears the stage of one half the dramatis personae, leaving the other half to exult over their down-fall.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Secondly: The ship Union, also of Nantucket, was in the year 1807 totally lost off the Azores by a similar onset, but the authentic particulars of this catastrophe I have never chanced to encounter, though from the whale hunters I have now and then heard casual allusions to it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely, surely, this thing would not drift along to catastrophe and he not find a way out.
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