🇬🇧🇨🇳 calamity - 灾害 : English Lesson

Meaning of "calamity" ("灾害"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A calamity is a very big disaster or terrible event that causes lots of problems, sadness, or damage for many people or things.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The spelling test was a calamity for me, because I even misspelled my own name.

Our camping trip turned into a calamity when Dad realized he had packed everything except the tent.

Grandma called it a calamity when she ran out of chocolate, and honestly, we agreed with her.

The library had a quiet calamity when someone sneezed, scared themselves, and knocked over an entire bookshelf.

In old stories, people called big disasters like earthquakes and floods "calamities"—but in my house, running out of ice cream is the greatest calamity of all.

A sudden flood turned the quiet street into a calamity. A wet child clutched a soaked photo and cried, calling the loss a calamity. A dog barked; a neighbor waded through water, calling the scene a calamity and lifting the child. They whispered calamity. Later, they counted ruined toys, laughed through tears, and named this calamity small but fixable.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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