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Перевод: calamity

[существительное]
бедствие; беда

Тезаурус:

1. That would be a calamity."
2. The recent box-office calamity of Marjorie Morningstar , was another example; the big-budget Warner Brothers adaptation of Herman Wouk's best-selling novel, starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly, ended up so dismally after such a huge build-up that Natalie began seeing her analyst at lunchtimes as well.
3. For generations prior to this calamity the custodians and promoters of Yahweh - that is, the now canonized Prophets of Israel - had been warning the people that if they did not abandon their syncretistic ways, the wrath of the one true God would descend upon them.
4. Richard asked suddenly, impelled by the curiosity that drives people to stare at and question the survivors of some calamity.
5. Anyone who find, Hobbes's view intellectually attractive will easily hit upon his thesis that someone who feels pity is simply moved by the self-centred thought "that the like calamity may befall himself", and that people are benevolent only because this produces self-satisfaction.
6. The cold facts and figures of country houses and castles demolished in Scotland - over 400 this century - were described by John Harris in his introduction to SAVE's 1980 report, The Lost Houses of Scotland , as demonstrating "the awful scale of the Scottish calamity the quality of what has been lost is mind-boggling."
7. But it would be a calamity if the British people turned to Mr Kinnock out of pique.
8. The first calamity was a disastrous trade war with Holland.
9. The judgement of observers of the misfortunes of others were influenced by numerous factors, such as the scale of the calamity and its proximity or remoteness, as well as by prejudices arising from class and privilege.
10. But if a war went badly and looked likely to drag on, that would be a calamity not just in its own right.
11. "I consider it my duty to strive to ward off the calamity by bringing about the union of Palestine and Transjordan", he told the Palestinians.
12. But how do they connect with such a statistically-remote calamity as "Girlfriend in a Coma?"
13. Ramsey felt the death to be a personal calamity.