fatal

• adj. 致命的；重大的；毀滅性的；命中注定的
• n. (Fatal)人名；(葡、芬)法塔爾

來自fate, 命運。

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.

1. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.--Winston Churchill

成功不是終點，失敗也並非末日，最重要的是繼續前進的勇氣。

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2. It is impossible to say who struck the fatal blow.

很難判斷是誰給了致命的一擊。

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3. His party has just suffered the equivalent of a near-fatal heart attack.

他所在的政黨剛剛經曆了一次類似心髒病突發般幾近致命的打擊。

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4. Statistically, ninety-eight percent of all acute sunstroke cases are fatal.

據統計，急性中暑病例中有98%是致命的。

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5. It would clearly be fatal for Europe to quarrel seriously with America.

歐洲若與美國反目顯然會有致命的後果。

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