1.多灾多难的;悲惨的;不幸的
1.causing serious damage, or causing a lot of people to suffer
1.It was an investigation he never got to complete. Because on one calamitous night, Raley's world was shattered.
那是一个他永远无法完成的调查工作，因为在一个不幸的晚上，雷利的世界坍塌了。
2.Indeed, allowing deficits to increase put a floor under what otherwise would have been a calamitous collapse in demand.
实际上，允许赤字增长避免了本来可能会出现的需求崩溃。
3.Although we did not meet, also not know who the other party is, , I hope that your ability is come out from the calamitous shadow.
虽然我们没有见过面，也不知道对方是谁，但是，我希望你能从灾难的阴影中走出来。
4.The regulator will also be keeping a watchful eye: to award a banking licence and then see that business fail would be calamitous.
监管机构应始终保持警惕：在授予银行执照时，以及警惕银行经营不善而带来的灾难性后果。
5.More than any other nation, China suffers from a potentially calamitous variety of natural perils, most particularly floods and typhoon.
中国遭受的潜在自然灾害风险比其它任何国家都多，自然灾害多种多样，其中最显著的就是洪水和台风。
6.Peaceful contact proved elusive, but those encounters helped the agents stitch together a profile of a man with a calamitous past.
和平交谈变得难以捉摸，但是这些遭遇使专家们拼凑出了一份有关此人悲剧过去的简介。
7.It was the first insulting shoe, payback for Bush's calamitous legacy in Iraq, for tens of thousands of dead Iraqis.
它是第一只侮辱性的鞋子，是对小布什在伊拉克留下的灾难性遗产的偿还——在伊拉克已经死去了数以万计的人。
8.The assumption that the USA (let alone the rest of the world) is Silicone Valley writ large proved to be calamitous to the industry.
假设美国（更不用说世界其余）是矽谷财物被证明是灾难性的大产业。
9.For emerging countries, the "great recession" was a blip. For high-income countries, it was calamitous.
对新兴经济体而言，“大衰退”转瞬即逝；而对高收入国家而言，则是一场灾难。
10.But the country would be in less calamitous shape if more officials worked as hard as he.
但是如果更多的官员能像他这样努力工作，该国的受灾情况也许不会如此严重。