Casualty
['kæʒjʊəltɪ;-zj-] or ['kæʒuəlti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a decrease of military personnel or equipment.
(noun.) someone injured or killed in an accident.
(noun.) someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement.
法耶手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
(n.) Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.
(n.) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
整理:劳拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Chance, fortuity, contingency, hap, unforeseen event.[2]. Accident, disaster, misfortune, calamity, mischance, catastrophy.
班尼特手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Accident, contingency, chance, fortuity, {[hap]?}, misfortune, occurrence,mischance,[See ACCIDENT]
ANT:Appointment, assignment, provision, ordinance, enactment
琼整理
例句/造句/用法:
- This move was made without a single casualty in either branch of the service. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Rather a good accident brought into the casualty ward. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- A casualty to Sherman that would have taken him from the field that day would have been a sad one for the troops engaged at Shiloh. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Our casualties during these operations amounted to 394 killed, I,554 wounded and 324 missing. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Our casualties for the day were nine killed and forty-seven wounded. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The casualties on our side during the siege amounted to sixty-four officers and men, killed and wounded. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This last attack only served to increase our casualties without giving any benefit whatever. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Then by casualties of war, sickness, and other natural causes, their losses were much heavier. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The casualties of the feudal law were taxes upon the transference of land, both from the dead to the living, and from the living to the living. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- We heard of no casualties among them, and no sickness. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The lists of casualties are carried on from day to day: you stop in the midst as in a story which is to be continued in our next. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- So far a long train of casualties has marked the airship’s progress. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The siege had lasted a number of days, but the casualties were few in number. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A tendency existed at the time to assume that electricity was altogether safe, while its opponents, predicating their attacks on arc-lighting casualties, insisted it was most dangerous. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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