fatality
noun /fəˈtæləti/
/feɪˈtæləti/
(plural fatalities)
- [countable] a death that is caused in an accident or a war, or by violence or disease
（事故、战争、疾病等中的）死亡 - Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities.
有几个人受伤，但没有人死亡。 - a campaign to reduce the number of fatalities on the roads
减少道路死亡人数的运动
- Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities.
- [uncountable] the fact that a particular disease will result in death
（疾病的）致命性 - to reduce the fatality of certain types of cancer
降低某些癌症的致命性 - Different forms of cancer have different fatality rates.
不同类型的癌症死亡率也不同。 - The fatality rate so far is about 50%.
到目前为止，死亡率约为50%。
- to reduce the fatality of certain types of cancer
- [uncountable] the belief or feeling that we have no control over what happens to us
宿命；听天由命；天数 - A sense of fatality gripped her.
一种命中注定的意识控制着她。
- A sense of fatality gripped her.
词源late 15th cent. (denoting the quality of causing death or disaster): from French fatalité or late Latin fatalitas, from Latin fatalis ‘decreed by fate’, from fatum ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’. Senses (1 and 2) date from the mid 19th cent.