fatality

英 [fəˈtæləti]

美 [fəˈtæləti]

n.  (事故、战争、疾病等中的)死亡; (疾病的)致命性; 宿命; 听天由命; 天数

复数：fatalities　

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牛津词典

noun

• （事故、战争、疾病等中的）死亡
  a death that is caused in an accident or a war, or by violence or disease
  1. Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities.
     有几个人受伤，但没有人死亡。
• （疾病的）致命性
  the fact that a particular disease will result in death
  1. to reduce the fatality of certain types of cancer
     降低某些癌症的致命性
  2. Different forms of cancer have different fatality rates.
     不同类型的癌症死亡率也不同。
• 宿命；听天由命；天数
  the belief or feeling that we have no control over what happens to us
  1. A sense of fatality gripped her.
     一种命中注定的意识控制着她。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (事故或暴力导致的)死亡
  Afatalityis a death caused by an accident or by violence.
  1. Drunk driving fatalities have declined more than 10 percent over the past 10 years.
     酒后驾车死亡人数在过去 10 年中下降了 10%以上。
• N-UNCOUNT 宿命感;宿命论
  Fatalityis the feeling or belief that human beings cannot influence or control events.
  1. ...with a feeling of fatality.
     怀着宿命感

英英释义

noun

• the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
• a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
  1. a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities
  Synonym:human death

双语例句

• Cutaneous melanoma is an important disease entity for its potential fatality and its urgency of timely management.
  由于皮肤黑色素细胞瘤有潜在的病死风险以及需要迫切的适时处理，故本病十分重要。
• The primary outcome was the risk of death among obstetric emergency patients, calculated with crude case fatality rates and crude odds ratios.
  主要结果是以粗致死率和粗优势比计算的产科急诊病人的死亡风险。
• Asthma has a relatively low fatality rate compared to other chronic diseases.
  相对于其它慢性病而言，哮喘的死亡率较低。
• Different forms of cancer have different fatality rates.
  不同类型的癌症死亡率也不同。
• After using DTP, the disease incidence rate and the case fatality rate greatly were the drop, Jiangsu Province many years have not had diphtheria case.
  使用DTP后，发病率和病死率均大为下降，江苏省已多年未发生白喉病例。
• Observations suggest that these strains cause more severe cholera with higher case fatality rates.
  据观察认为，这些菌株可引起更为严重的霍乱疾病，死亡率更高。
• Many factors complicate efforts to calculate a case fatality ratio while an outbreak is still evolving.
  疾病仍处于暴发期时很多因素使计算病例病死率的努力复杂化。
• Both diseases are rare, but can cause dramatic outbreaks with high fatality.
  两种疾病都很少见，但都能造成突然疫情，致命性很高。
• This is the main reason for fatality.
  根据维基百科，这是它致命的主要原因。
• The attack resulted in one fatality and several serious injuries.
  袭击造成一人死亡，几人受重伤。