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    A fatality is a death, usually a sudden one caused by an accident, a disaster, or violence. It's the word news reports use when counting how many people died in something — 'the crash caused two fatalities' — so it has a formal, serious tone rather than being a word people use casually.

    死亡人數、死亡事故

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成fatal (causing death) + -ity (a noun ending meaning the state or an instance of something)

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  • fatalfatality is the noun form of fatal, meaning an instance of death
  • fateboth come from the Latin word fatum, meaning something spoken or destined

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

fatalitynoun/feɪˈtælɪti/

  • 1

    The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

  • 2

    Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.

  • 3

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

    • What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?
  • 4

    Death.

  • 5

    An accident that causes death.

    • the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking...
  • 6

    A person killed.

  • 7

    video-gamesA move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.

    • My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。