Optimists see opportunities in disasters while pessimists find disasters in every opportunity.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
灾祸
disaster
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
disaster
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 灾祸 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 灾祸 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Years of resistance to misfortune ended when the settlers' village was overcome by the savages and their hopes and lives came to the bitter end.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 灾祸.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 灾祸.
Directly before
- 对灾祸1
- 在灾祸1
- 看到灾祸1
- 这场灾祸1
Directly after
- 灾祸的2
- 灾祸中1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 灾祸
What does 灾祸 mean in Chinese?
灾祸 (zāihuò) means disaster.
How do you pronounce 灾祸?
灾祸 is pronounced zāihuò.
Is 灾祸 an HSK word?
灾祸 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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