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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- fatal ['feɪtəl]
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1.
adj
resulting in or capable of causing death
- a fatal accident
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2.
adj
bringing ruin; disastrous
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3.
adj
decisively important; fateful
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4.
adj
decreed by fate; destined; inevitable
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5.
adj
[Etymology]
C14: from Old French fatal or Latin f
a ta lis, from fa tum, seefate
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1.
adj
resulting in or capable of causing death
Examples
- The captain remained in the boat until the last fatal moment.
- 这名船长在最后的危急时刻仍然留在船上。 → captain
- a near fatal accident
- 一场几乎致命的事故 → near
- the scheme later demonstrated a fatal flaw → demonstrate
- a fatal accident → fatal
- 恶性事故
- a fatal accident → 恶性
- 遭杀身之祸
- meet with a fatal disaster → 杀身之祸
- 伤势危急。
- The wound may be fatal. → 危急
- 致命的弱点
- fatal weakness → 致命
- 埃博拉传染病的潜伏期短，死亡率高。
- Ebola is can be fatal, and once contracted it takes a short time for the symptoms to show. → 埃博拉
- 马琳的抽杀稳准狠, 拍拍置对手于死地。
- Ma Lin was stable, exact and ruthless in her ambitions and every move she directed at her opponent was with fatal intent. → 抽杀
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