fatality
fatality 英 [fəˈtæləti] 美 [feˈtælɪti, fə-]
n. 死亡；宿命；
名词复数:fatalities
- If you hear on your car radio that there has been a traffic accident up ahead with one fatality, you should be very thankful you were not involved. A fatality is, quite simply and grimly, a human death.
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- n. 死亡；宿命；
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1. Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities.
有几个人受伤，但没有人死亡。
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2. to reduce the fatality of certain types of cancer
降低某些癌症的致命性
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3. Different forms of cancer have different fatality rates.
不同类型的癌症死亡率也不同。
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4. A sense of fatality gripped her.
一种命中注定的意识控制着她。
- fatality (n.) late 15c., "quality of causing death," from French fatalité, from Late Latin fatalitatem (nominative fatalitas) "fatal necessity, fatality," from Latin fatalis "ordained by fate; destructive, deadly" (see fatal). Senses in 16c.-17c. included "determined by fate" and "a destiny." Meaning "an occurrence resulting in widespread death" is from 1840. Related: Fatalities.
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