fatality
英 [fə'tælɪtɪ; feɪ-]
美 [fə'tæləti]
英語の語源
- fatality (n.)
- late 15c., "quality of causing death," from French fatalité, from Late Latin fatalitatem (nominative fatalitas) "fatal necessity, fatality," from Latin fatalis "ordained by fate; destructive, deadly" (see fatal). Senses in 16c.-17c. included "determined by fate" and "a destiny." Meaning "an occurrence resulting in widespread death" is from 1840. Related: Fatalities.
例文
- 1. The case- fatality percentages were higher in the highly polluted areas.
- 致死例の割合は、重汚染域で多い。
- 2.It did not shrink from such words as fatality ，bondage and the like.
- 宿命や束縛などの言葉を気にしない。dd>
哲学部から
- 3.It is my conviction，or my delusion，that crime brings its own fatality with it.
- 悪いことをするのは悪い報いではないと信じています。
- 4.A bite from a bushmaster has an 80% fatality rate，even with anti-venom.
- 巨マムシに噛まれた人の80%は死ぬ、たとえ抗毒血清があっても。
- 5.The fatality rate of pneumonic plague a staggering 95 percent.
- 肺ペストの死亡率は驚くべき95%に達した。
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