fa·tal·i·ty /feˈtæləti, fə-/
不幸,災禍,天命
fa·tal·i·ty /feˈtælətɪ, fə-/ 名詞
Fa·tal·i·ty n.;pl. Fatalities
1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. --South.
2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. --Ser T. Browne.
By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. --Eikon Basilike.
3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
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fatality
n 1: a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a
decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" [syn: human
death]
2: the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters