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a death that is caused in an accident or a war, or by violence or disease （事故、战争、疾病等中的）死亡 Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤，但没有人死亡。 a campaign to reduce the number of fatalities on the roads 减少道路死亡人数的运动
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the fact that a particular disease will result in death （疾病的）致命性 to reduce the fatality of certain types of cancer 降低某些癌症的致命性 Different forms of cancer have different fatality rates. 不同类型的癌症死亡率也不同。 The fatality rate so far is about 50%. 到目前为止，死亡率约为50%。
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the belief or feeling that we have no control over what happens to us 宿命；听天由命；天数
Word Originlate 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 ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’. Senses (1 and 2) date from the mid 19th cent.