failure catastrophic

基本解释

For example, do we view failure as catastrophic, or do we see it as a learning opportunity?
我们把失败看成一个灾难，还是一个学习的机会，决定我们快乐与否。
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complete system failure — catastrophic events in a plane that was likely already plunging toward the ocean.
11点14分——最后一条讯息显示机舱失压和整个系统瘫痪——对于飞机来说这是一个灾难性的事故。此时飞机很有可能正在坠向大海。
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，聪明的利用内部和外部资源可以做一个温和的故障和灾难性的财产损失，甚至失去生命之间的差异。

"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.
因为这意味着，你的程序依然会返回一个值，但是这个值可能不是你想要的，你可能还分辨不出来，而且这种情况会传播,结果会沿着正果计算过程传播下去,直到产生一个灾难性的错误。
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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.
所以这就使得金属具有了特别的性质，因为金属键使得原子可以,在彼此之间流动,而不会千万灾难性的后果。
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Yet the record will prove that active management is a catastrophic failure to achieve that goal.
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