disaster area

灾区受灾地区灾区灾害地区

disaster area 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a region or locality in which the population is generally affected by the occurrence of a major disaster, as a widespread flood, an explosion causing extensive damage, or the like.
  2. such a region or locality officially determined to be eligible, under statutory provisions, for emergency governmental relief.

disaster area 近义词

n. 名词 noun

area affected by a general disaster

更多disaster area例句

  1. On May 2, the day President Bush declared Los Angeles a disaster area, Mayor Bradley announced the formation of Rebuild LA, entrusting the fifty-four-year-old businessman Peter Ueberroth, a resident of Orange County, with directing the program.
  2. Historically the reelection rate for members of Congress is in the area of 95 percent.
  3. The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.
  4. As he drove me back to the logging road, Frank told me about the area in his deep voice.
  5. His neighbors include some of the other designer outposts one finds speckled around the area.
  6. And black fury toward cops today is fueled by historic economic disparities and by the economic disaster of the past decade plus.
  7. The small grain crops had been burned to a crisp, and disaster hung over the land.
  8. The menace of a thunder-cloud approached as in his childhood's dream; disaster lurked behind the quiet outer show.
  9. By their agreement with the owner, the Company have the right of mining under an area of 185 acres, at a royalty of 6d.
  10. Mobs of people filled the streets, wildly denouncing the incapability of a Government which could lead them to such disaster.
  11. If you did fail, you would try Exclusion, and you would find nothing which is the antithesis of the area of New York.