fatal
- 英式英标[\'fetl]
- 美式音标[\'feɪt(ə)l]
adj. 致命的；重大的；毁灭性的；命中注定的
n. (Fatal)人名；(葡、芬)法塔尔
英文词源
- 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.
实用例句
- 1. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.--Winston Churchill
- 成功不是终点，失败也并非末日，最重要的是继续前进的勇气。
来自金山词霸 每日一句
- 2. It is impossible to say who struck the fatal blow.
- 很难判断是谁给了致命的一击。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. His party has just suffered the equivalent of a near-fatal heart attack.
- 他所在的政党刚刚经历了一次类似心脏病突发般几近致命的打击。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Statistically, ninety-eight percent of all acute sunstroke cases are fatal.
- 据统计，急性中暑病例中有98%是致命的。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. It would clearly be fatal for Europe to quarrel seriously with America.
- 欧洲若与美国反目显然会有致命的后果。
来自柯林斯例句
