| 1. | He is finding it difficult to keep his head above water .
他发现很难避免灭顶之灾。 |
| 2. | The plane was shot down into the sea and people in it were drowned .
飞机被击落坠海，全机人员惨遭灭顶之灾。 |
| 3. | Only miserable creatures would survive such a catastrophe anyhow .
只有摇尾乞怜的家伙，才会经过这场灭顶之灾后幸存下来。 |
| 4. | Riccardo could see that we were going down the tube in a hurry unless something happened soon .
里卡多能够看出，除非迅速出现转化，我们很快要遭到灭顶之灾。 |
| 5. | He had seen woodrow wilson destroyed by congress's rejection of the league in 1919 .
他曾亲眼目睹伍德罗威尔逊就是因为国会在1919年拒绝他有关国联的主张，才遭灭顶之灾。 |
| 6. | The third was sickly and elderly, and might have perished but for the efforts used to preserve him .
第三位是一个有病的老年人，若非我们把他救上来，说不定会遭灭顶之灾。 |
| 7. | Huge surges cause severe flooding that demolishes buildings, washes out beaches and highways, and drowns people .
巨大的涌浪引起剧烈的泛滥，从而摧毁房屋，冲坏海滩与公路，使人们惨遭灭顶之灾。 |
| 8. | Only a great lust for poweror near-fanatical ideological convictioncan have impelled them into careers in which there are few winners and disastrous penalties for losers .
只有一种巨大的权力欲或是一种近于狂热的思想意识信念才能趋使他们投入只有少数人取胜，而失败者要遭灭顶之灾的事业。 |
| 9. | The disaster like a big flood is approaching
那大洪水似的灭顶之灾，正一步一步地逼近。 |
| 10. | Unmitigated disaster ! the death knell
灭顶之灾啊已经听到丧钟报丧了 |
