Few had expected that change to be as cataclysmic as it turned out to be.

没有人预测到那些变化会变成一种大灾难。

The results were cataclysmic.

结果是灾难性的。

Floods and other cataclysmic events like tsunamis.

洪灾和海啸等其他灾难性事件。

Cataclysmic housing crises are easy to spot, but also rare.

灾难性住房经济危机容易发现，却也很少发生。

Laotse had laughed before him, a thin, shrill yet cataclysmic laughter.

老子在庄子之前便懂得幽默，一种淡定、尖锐然而洪亮的嘲笑。

One can raedily trace the disappearance of dinosaurs to a major cataclysmic event.

人们很容难把恐龙长逝的缘由归结为宽酷的灾难性事件。

In fact a cataclysmic surface event is anticipated sometime within the next 18 to 24 months.

事实上，在接下来的18到24个月某段时间里，预期会有剧烈的地表事件发生。

Tambora started to grumble noticeably in 1812, building up to a cataclysmic eruption in April 1815.

坦博拉火山于1812年就开始明显地发出隆隆的雷声，在1815年4月才构成了一个灾难性的喷发。

In that cataclysmic, overcast afternoon and black night, the Lützow was in the forefront of action.

在那个波浪滔天的下午和漆黑的夜晚，吕佐夫号一直处在作战的最前沿。

If, say, the Western Hemisphere were sterilized, there would soon be a cataclysmic spiritual crisis.

打个比方，如果西半球的人们无法生育，随之而来的将是严重的精神危机。

The crater was the right size and - crucially - the right age to be the site of the cataclysmic impact.

这个坑洞尺寸与所要寻求的相同，最关键的是，它的年代也和毁灭性撞击的年代相符合。

But the gradual build-up of underground pressure can lead to occasional bursts of cataclysmic activity.

但是随之逐渐增长的地面下的压力可以引起偶然性的大变动的爆发。

Instead a cataclysmic intervention was needed (Christ's second coming), if society was to be transformed.

反而，如果这个社会需要被转变，它需要一个灾难(基督的第二次再来)。

"2012" revolves around cataclysmic events that strike the Earth just as the Mayan calendar is coming to a close.

《2012》是一部描写当玛雅纪年结束的时候地球即将毁灭的灾难性影片。

Many today believe that the Zeta Reticuli messages actually refer to the Mayan calendar's cataclysmic event of 2012.

现今许多人相信齐塔网状星系的讯息实际上是指2012年玛雅日历所指的大灾劫。

A software project that has a consistently increasing earned value profile is certain to have a pending cataclysmic regression.

一个具有一张价值持续不断增长曲线图的软件项目一定会有一个待解决的很大的回归。

What I now know is that losses aren't cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing.

现在我知道，如果失去能促使内心和灵魂在伤害和愈合间的自然循环，那就不是灾难性的。

But one of his most famous stories-the cataclysmic destruction of the ancient civilization of atlantis-is almost certainly false.

但他最著名的故事中有一个，即亚特兰蒂斯古文明的突然毁灭，却几乎是一个不折不扣的谎言。

Could they be the leakage of gravitational waves caused by the cataclysmic collisions of supermassive black holes before the Big Bang?

它们是不是由大爆炸之前特大质量的黑洞灾难性的碰撞引起的引力波的漏泄？

During Earth's opening act, space debris and cataclysmic volcanic upheavals destroyed the evidence, like an arsonist torching his tracks.

在地球形成之初，其表面的残骸和大火山爆发等毁坏了所有关于生命的证据，如同纵火犯在作案后掩盖了作案的痕迹。

We know that these events are among the most cataclysmic that the sky holds; but we understand only-and approximately-the how, not the why.

我们知道这些偶发事件是在天空拥有的最大的灾难；但我们仅仅——大概了解——只知其然，却不知其所以然。

Modern technology has created some thorny problems (Can a particle accelerator open up a cataclysmic black hole that will destroy the Earth?

现代技术往往产生一些难以两全的棘手问题。 你认为，粒子加速器是否能揭开据称将毁灭地球的黑洞秘密吗？