failure catastrophic

基本解釋

For example, do we view failure as catastrophic, or do we see it as a learning opportunity?
我們把失敗看成一個災(zāi)難，還是一個學(xué)習(xí)的機(jī)會，決定我們快樂與否。
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complete system failure — catastrophic events in a plane that was likely already plunging toward the ocean.
11點(diǎn)14分——最后一條訊息顯示機(jī)艙失壓和整個系統(tǒng)癱瘓——對于飛機(jī)來說這是一個災(zāi)難性的事故。此時飛機(jī)很有可能正在墜向大海。
However, smart use of internal and external resources can make the difference between a mild failure and catastrophic property damage or even loss of life.
但是，聰明的利用內(nèi)部和外部資源可以做一個溫和的故障和災(zāi)難性的財產(chǎn)損失，甚至失去生命之間的差異。

"Its failure could have resulted in a 1930s-style global financial and economic meltdown, with catastrophic implications for production, income and jobs,".
Because it says, your program will still give you a value, but it may not be what you intended, and you can't always tell, and that may propagate it's way down through a whole bunch of other computations before it causes some catastrophic failure.
因?yàn)檫@意味著，你的程序依然會返回一個值，但是這個值可能不是你想要的，你可能還分辨不出來，而且這種情況會傳播,結(jié)果會沿著正果計算過程傳播下去,直到產(chǎn)生一個災(zāi)難性的錯誤。
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That is what makes metal so fascinating, because metallic bonding allows the atoms to glide over one another without resulting in catastrophic failure.
所以這就使得金屬具有了特別的性質(zhì)，因?yàn)榻饘冁I使得原子可以,在彼此之間流動,而不會千萬災(zāi)難性的后果。
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Yet the record will prove that active management is a catastrophic failure to achieve that goal.
FORBES: Playing With Active Money Managment Is A Losing Game