failure catastrophic

基本解释

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難，還是一個學習的機會，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14分——最後一條訊息顯示機艙失壓和整個系統癱瘓——對於飛機來說這是一個災難性的事故。此時飛機很有可能正在墜曏大海。
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，聰明的利用內部和外部資源可以做一個溫和的故障和災難性的財産損失，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.
因爲這意味著，你的程序依然會返廻一個值，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,結果會沿著正果計算過程傳播下去,直到産生一個災難性的錯誤。
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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，因爲金屬鍵使得原子可以,在彼此之間流動,而不會千萬災難性的後果。
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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