- an accident, a disaster;〔船の〕(a) shipwreck
遭難する meet with a disaster
- 5人が雪崩なだれで遭難した
- Five persons were lost in the avalanche.
- 台風で船が遭難した
- The ship sank [was lost] in the typhoon.
- 山で遭難する
- 〔行方不明になる〕「be lost [disappear] in the mountains/〔事故などで死ぬ〕be killed in a mountaineering accident
- 遭難現場the scene of 「a disaster [an accident]
- 遭難救助隊a rescue party
- 遭難者a victim
- この冬は山の遭難者が50人を越えた
- Over fifty people lost their lives in the mountains this winter.
- 遭難信号an SOS; a distress signal
- 遭難信号を出した
- We sent out an SOS.
- 近くを航行中の漁船が遭難信号を受信した
- A fishing boat sailing nearby picked up the SOS.
- 遭難船a wrecked ship; a ship in distress