Casualty



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解释

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• n.伤亡事故;伤亡者
• ［英］ n.伤亡事故 ( serious or fatal accident) ; 伤亡者 ( person killed or wounded in an accident or battle)

Webster Collegiate

noun (plural -ties)

• Date: 15th century
• 1. archaic chance, fortune <losses that befall them by mere casualty — Sir Walter Raleigh
• 2. serious or fatal accident ; disaster
• 3.
  • a. a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action
  • b. a person or thing injured, lost, or destroyed ; victim <the ex-senator was a casualty of the last election

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