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/ˈliːθəl/
Able to cause death - deadly. Used for things like weapons, doses of medicine or poison, or diseases: 'a lethal dose,' 'a lethal weapon.' Can also be used more about something extremely effective in a non-literal way, like 'her serve in tennis is lethal' (very hard to return).
致命的
組成Comes from an old Latin word meaning 'death.'
原始詞典資料4 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。
lethaladj詞源 1/ˈliː.θəl/
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Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
- Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
lethalnoun詞源 1/ˈliː.θəl/
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Any weapon that causes death.
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biologygeneticsmedicineAn allele that causes the death of the organism that carries it.
lethalnoun詞源 2/ˈliː.θəl/
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chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesOne of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.
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。