Fatality
[fə'tælɪtɪ;feɪ-] or [fə'tæləti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters.
(noun.) a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; 'a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities'.
校對:桑福德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
(n.) The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
(n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Destiny, fate, inevitable necessity.[2]. Mortality.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Everything,' returned Lightwood impatiently, 'seems, by a fatality, to bring us round to Lizzie. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- By a strange fatality Juliet alone escaped, and she to the last waited on her relatives, and smoothed the pillow of death. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Its success, however, was marred by the first railroad fatality, for it ran over and killed a man on this occasion. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Yes, that was ever the hour of fatality at Thornfield. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- A terrible sense of fatality robbed her of all feeling and thought. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It is my conviction, or my delusion, no matter which, that crime brings its own fatality with it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The same fatality which had made me just one day too late in calling on Sergeant Cuff, made me again one day too late in calling on Godfrey. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But the principle always failed us by some curious fatality, and we never could hit any medium between redness and cinders. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He had the sense that whatever she said was uttered in the vision of a fatality that kept them apart. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- She takes her sewing occasionally; but, by some fatality, she is doomed never to sit steadily at it for above five minutes at a time. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- There WAS a fatality in it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- There was a fatality about it, as if it were bound to be. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- These things happen so oddly sometimes,' said Bella with a steady countenance, 'that there seems a kind of fatality in them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It seemed like a fatality! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The mine-owners in some cases so ught to suppress the news of fatalities. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Believe that they are not all mercenary, although I have, through a series of strange fatalities, faded out of my place in life. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- All miners were equipped with either the Davy lamp or the Geordie lamp, as the other was called, and the mine fatalities from fire-damp immediately decreased. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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