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fatality
[fә'tæliti]
n. 幸, 厄运, 致命性, 死亡者, 厄运,
  1. There was a strange fatality about their both losing their jobs on the same day.
    , 真意叵测.
  2. There have been ten swimming fatalities (ie Ten people have lost their lives while swimming) this summer.
    游泳溺.
  3. She struggle against fatality in vain.
    她徒奋斗抗宿命。




fatality
[ noun ]
  1. a death resulting from an accident or a disaster

  2. <noun.event>
    a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities
  3. the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters

  4. <noun.attribute>




Fatality \Fa*tal"i*ty\, n.;pl. {Fatalities}. [L. fatalitas: cf.
F. fatalit['e]]
1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny;
invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of,
free and rational control.

The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable
course of events. --South.

2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or
danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.

The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it
the most considerable fatality. --Ser T.
Browne.

By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting.
--Eikon
Basilike.

3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal
event. --Dryden.