fatality

fatality
[fəˈtalɪti, feɪ-]
(pl. -ies)

an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease
（事故、战争、疾病引起的）死亡
shooting was heard and there were fatalities.
听见有枪声，死了一些人。
■a person killed in this way
死亡人员
[mass noun]helplessness in the face of fate
听天由命；命数，天数，宿命
the plot needs a darker sense of fatality to cover its absurdities.
这个情节需要一种更深沉的宿命感来掩饰其荒谬性。

语源

late 15th cent. (denoting the quality of causing death or disaster): from French fatalité or late Latin fatalitas, from Latin fatalis 'decreed by fate', from fatum (see fate). Sense 1 dates from the mid 19th cent

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