| 单词 | disaster area |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdisaster area disaster area n. (a) an area in which a disaster has occurred, esp. one which is officially designated as such and is thus eligible for government aid; (b) figurative. colloquial a thing or person that is regarded as highly chaotic or unsuccessful. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > place or area of wildernessa1340 black spot1832 disaster zone1906 disaster area1911 1911 Sunday Times (Sydney) 5 Nov. 22/1 Two hundred infantrymen and 100 sappers..left for the disaster area, and are now engaged in rescue work. 1952 Times 23 Apr. 5/5 The whole district has been declared a ‘disaster area’ by the Saskatchewan government. 1969 M. Drabble Waterfall 244 I was merely a disaster area, a landscape given to such upheavals. 1970 Guardian 25 Nov. 2/1 Pakistani officials..described the difficulties they had experienced in bringing aid to the disaster area. 1991 Time 17 June 48/3 Commercial real estate remains a disaster area, with largely vacant office towers. 2006 R. Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in Emerald City (2007) vi. 118 One friend said that Corliss could..be on a ‘sort of SWAT team that runs into a disaster area and helps rebuild the economy’. < as lemmas |
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