fatal
英 ['feɪt(ə)l]
美 ['fetl]
- adj. 致命的な; 重要な; 破壊的な; 運命的な
- ポルトガル語、フィンランド語で)致命的な
語源
英語の語源
- fatal (adj.)
- late 14c., "decreed by fate," also "fraught with fate," from Middle French fatal (14c.) and directly from Latin fatalis "ordained by fate, decreed, destined; destructive, deadly," from fatum (see fate (n.)); sense of "causing or attended with death" in English is from early 15c. Meaning "concerned with or dealing with destiny" is from mid-15c.
例文
- 1. Success is not final,failure is not fatal :it is the courage to continue that counts.--Winston Churchill成功はゴールではなく、失敗も最後ではなく、最も重要なのは前進を続ける勇気である。dd>
毎日一言
- 2.It is impossible to say who struck the fatal blow.
- 誰が致命的な一撃を与えたのか判断するのは難しい。
- 3.His party has just suffered the equivalent of a near- fatal heart attack.
- 彼の政党は心臓発作のような致命的な打撃を受けたばかりだ。
- 4.Statistically,ninety-eight percent of all acute sunstroke cases are fatal .
- 統計によると、急性熱中症の症例の98%は致命的である。/
- 5.It would clearly be fatal for Europe to quarrel seriously with America.
- ヨーロッパがアメリカと反目すると致命的な結果になることは明らかだ。
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