He was beginning to be excited. He always became excited when his still weakened brain was stirred by memories of the catastrophes of the past.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
It was the refrain of a Millerite hymn. The Millerites believed that these signs in the sky were omens of the approaching catastrophe. And it was said that some of them did go so far as to put on white "ascension robes," and assemble somewhere, to wait for the expected hour.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
"And the catastrophe?" queried Lousteau, returning just at the end of Mme. de la Baudraye's story.英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
"I do not believe in catastrophes. One has to invent such good ones to show that art is quite a match for chance; and nobody reads a book twice, my friend, except for the details."英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
"What can have happened in your family so extraordinary that every one is talking about your wife?" asked M. de Ronquerolles of M. d'Aiglemont a short time after that night of catastrophes.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
The third section described the priest's share in promoting the marriage of Maddalena Lomi with Fabio; and the hopes he entertained of securing the restitution of the Church property through his influence over his niece, in the first place, and, when she had died, through his influence over her child, in the second. The necessary failure of all his projects, if Fabio married again, was next glanced at; and the time at which the first suspicion of the possible occurrence of this catastrophe occurred to his mind was noted with scrupulous accuracy.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Bram Longriver says: "We're in a race between catastrophe and consciousness." You have Longriver?美剧 · 《Billions》