關鍵字彙：
benediction/ bliss/ boon/ calamity/ catastrophe/ debris/ disastrous/ felicity/ hapless/ holocaust/ millennium/ mishap
1. 「不幸的」可用hapless，「不幸」可用mishap：
•This hapless creature has never known a moment's pleasure.
•The sage has seen enough haps and mishaps of life.
2. 「災難性的」叫disastrous，「大災難」叫calamity或catastrophe，如果是牽涉到大火或大屠殺的「大破壞」、「大毀滅」、「浩劫」用holocaust，災難之後留下的「廢墟」叫debris：
•Such a war would be disastrous for the country.
•This decision will have a disastrous impact on foreign policy.
•His first attempt was disastrous.
•Carelessness in driving often results in disastrous accidents.
•Fifty people were killed in the calamity.
•The war was a terrible catastrophe in which many people died, and many more were displaced.
•Nuclear war will mean a holocaust.
•After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.
•The street was covered with debris from the explosion.
3. 「幸福」、「福祉」可用felicity，「讓人感到快樂幸福的事物」、「恩物」、「恩賜」可用boon或benediction：
•He spent a lifetime of perfect felicity with his lovely wife.
•The government is endeavoring to promote felicity in the nation.
•The cell phone should be a major boon to modern life if we use it sensibly.
•The radio is a great boon to the blind.
•Parks are a great boon to people living in big cities.
•When summer comes, the sun is no benediction here.
4. 「有如天賜的樂事」叫bliss，「太平盛世」叫millennium：
•What bliss to be able to marry the girl with a kind, innocent heart, and a sweet voice!
•Now, maintaining the practice of Buddhism with little disturbance is my idea of sheer bliss.
•It is our hope that our descendants will live in millennium.
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