The disaster that had befallen him slowly changed that view.

降临在他身上灾难慢慢地改变了这种看法。

The disaster permanently altered the public's view on the necessity of lifeboats.

这场灾难永久地改变了公众对救生艇必要性看法。

Also, when a high-mass star explodes it catastrophically vaporizes itself, becoming a violently expanding cloud of gas.

而且，当大质量恒星爆炸时，它会灾难性地汽化自己，成为一团剧烈膨胀气体云。

And then when a disaster predictably happens, there's nowhere for people to go.

当灾难可预见地发生时，人们却无处可去。

We can see the disaster scenario only too well right now.

我们现在可以非常清楚地看到灾难场景。

But experts say some groups may have survived the disaster unharmed.

但专家表示，一些群体可能在这场灾难中毫发无伤地幸免于难。

After some thought, they simply decided to shoot stories after disasters.

一番思考，他们决定简单地拍摄灾难发生后故事。

This is a generally untouchable player that the situation in New York is so cataclysmic that people are down.

这是一个一般都不可触碰球员，以至于纽约局势如此灾难性地让人沮丧。

Naturally, Ms Vince favours policies that would curb carbon emissions and thus prevent the world from heating up so calamitously.

自然地，文斯女士赞成能够抑碳排放政策，从而防止世界如此灾难性地升温。

So long as everybody makes contribution, we will not have to put up with this problem anymore.

正如那位主任代表他研究小组所说明那样，这张图表据清楚地描述了未来环境趋势：一方面，燃量以每年9%速度持续减少，同时，大范围污染增长已成为一种全球趋势；另一反面，平均气温轻微却稳定地升高正在造成像广泛洪涝那样灾难。无不同意地，他们一致赞成是人类存在和任意消耗能源才造成了这一现象。许多人都信奉开发核能和外太空能源会防止糟糕后果发生理论，然而，即使这样可以基本上满足我们需要，科学家和教育家们仍然反对这一观点。他们更倾向于拥护用节省能源和回收废方法恢复环境生机，并建议我们要使用节省能源器具，如电力发动机、微波炉等，还建议我们不要对如回收罐子这种小事漫不心。因此，看看你身边是否有你能做事，只要每个人都作出贡献，我们就不必再忍受这个问题困扰了。30.A Volcano Eruption火山爆发。

ROBIN MURPHY: The most important thing to know, if you know one thing is that disaster robots make a disaster go away faster.

罗宾·墨菲：最重要事情是，灾难机器人可以使灾难更快地消失。

A neutron star can feed on a lighter companion, gorging on its more loosely bound atmosphere before eventually collapsing cataclysmically into a black hole.

中子星可以以较轻同伴为食，狼吞虎咽地吞下更松散大气层，最终灾难性地崩解成黑洞。

But, more isolated areas typically don't have the communication systems or emergency responders to handle disasters as effectively as more populated regions.

但是，较偏僻地区通常没有通信系统或应急响应人员来像人口稠密地区那样有效地处理灾难。

We think of erosion as something happening slowly over eons, but these ice age floods cataclysmically reshaped the landscape in just a matter of days.

我们认为侵蚀是亿万年来缓慢发生事情，但这些冰河时代洪水在短短几天内灾难性地重塑了地貌。

If it proves less effective than others it will be eliminated, peacefully or forcibly, by a gradual process of change or by a catastrophe.

如果它被证明不如其他方法有效， 它就会被一个渐进变革程或一场灾难和平地或强行地消除。

According to computer simulations, even a modest dilution of the ocean's salt content, from increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet, for instance-could disrupt the cycle disastrously.

计算机模拟试验结果表明，连海洋盐度稍有稀释，比如，由于格陵兰冰原加快融化，也会灾难性地打乱这个循环。

Not very long ago, it was also unthinkable that a virus would shut down nations and that safety nets would be proven so disastrously lacking in flexibility.

不久前，病毒会导致国家停摆， 安全网会被证明如此灾难性地缺乏灵活性， 这也是不可想象。

If a boiler happened to overheat, my dad claimed to be one of only a few workers with enough experience to swiftly and ably contain a disaster.

如果锅炉碰巧热，我爸爸声称自己是少几个有足够验工人之一，能够迅速有效地控灾难。

He pointed out that St. Helens didn't have an open vent, as Hawaiian volcanoes have, so any pressure building up inside was bound to be released dramatically and probably catastrophically.

他指出，圣海伦斯火山没有夏威夷火山那样敞开喷发口，因此积聚在里面压力势必要戏剧性地，很可能是灾难性地释放出来。

In fact, this very moment, when South Africa's mighty grid was catastrophically overstretched by its consumers, had been predicted to nearly the exact year in this 1998 white paper.

事实上，南非强大电网因消费者而灾难性地度负荷这一时刻，在 1998 年白皮书中几乎被预测到了这一年。