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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

    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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。