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灾祸

zāi huò

2-character word Traditional 災禍

What 灾祸 means

1. disaster

The characters in 灾祸

• 灾zāidisaster; calamity
• 祸huòdisaster; misfortune; calamity

Example sentences

• 乐观者在灾祸中看到机会，悲观者在机会中看到灾祸。
  Lèguānzhě zài zāihuò zhōng kàn dào jīhuì, bēiguānzhě zài jīhuì zhōng kàn dào zāihuò.
  Optimists see opportunities in disasters while pessimists find disasters in every opportunity.
• 当移居者的村庄被野蛮人征服后，他们的希望和生活到了痛苦的尽头，数年对灾祸的抵抗结束了。
  Dāng yíjū zhě de cūnzhuāng bèi yěmánrén zhēngfú hòu, tāmen de xīwàng hé shēnghuó dào le tòngkǔ de jìntóu, shùnián duì zāihuò de dǐkàng jiéshù le.
  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.