misfortune; adversity; a period of difficult or unfavorable circumstances

a country in South America

(meteorology) The El Niño weather phenomenon characterized by unusual warming of surface waters in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean; also called [[圣婴现象|聖嬰現象|sheng4 ying1 xian4 xiang4]] or [[厄尔尼诺现象|厄爾尼諾現象|e4 er3 ni2 nuo4 xian4 xiang4]]

The El Niño phenomenon; an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific that leads to global climate changes

Eritrea, a country in East Africa; can also be used as a describing word meaning Eritrean

in a difficult situation; poverty-stricken; struggling with extreme hardship

An island in the northern Mediterranean Sea belonging to Italy; best known as the place of Napoleon's first exile.

Karlsruhe, a city in southwest Germany

disaster; calamity; adversity; a mishap

Eros, the Greek god of love; often equated with the Roman god [[丘比特|丘比特|qiu1 bi3 te4]]

disaster; distress; hardship or misfortune; difficult circumstances

Øresund, also known as The Sound, which is the strait between Denmark and Sweden

Oirat Mongols, an ethnic group of western Mongolia

a difficult situation; a state of hardship and suffering

Ecuador; a country in South America; used primarily in Taiwan

Ørsta, a city and municipality in Norway

(Taiwan usage) Eritrea; a country in northeast Africa

Örebro, a city in Sweden

Eve, the first woman (transcription used in Catholic versions of the Bible)

Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus Mountains in southwest Russia

a day of misfortune or calamity; doomsday

official name of Ecuador, a country in South America

A large-scale interaction between the ocean and atmosphere where sea surface temperatures and water levels in the eastern Pacific drop below average, leading to global weather anomalies such as unusual rainfall and drought; also known as [[拉尼娜现象|拉尼娜現象|la1 ni2 na4 xian4 xiang4]] or in Taiwan as [[反圣婴现象|反聖嬰現象|fan3 sheng4 ying1 xian4 xiang4]]

Kilauea, a shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands and one of the most active volcanoes in the world

One of the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris, sea nymphs in Greek mythology

Flavius; usually referring to Flavius Josephus, a Roman historian of the 1st century AD

(literary) To be drowned; to die in a flood or water-related disaster

Levanger, a city in Trøndelag, Norway

(literary) to help someone escape a disaster or crisis; to relieve misfortune

extreme distress or being in financial straits, particularly when traveling; a reference to Confucius being stranded without food between two ancient states

To be in straits or have a streak of bad luck. This expression refers to the legend that the boxwood tree grows one inch a year, but shrinks back one inch in a leap year; it is used as a metaphor for being stuck or facing misfortune.