单词

casualty

读音

ˈkæʒuəlti

美式

英式

词根

"Casualty"的词根是 "casual"，一个英语形容词，意为随意的、非正式的、偶然的。在这里，“casual”转化为名词形式后，引申出了人员伤亡这一特定含义。

释义

n. 意外事故；伤亡人员；急诊室 [ 复数 casualties ]

例句

There are fears that the casualty toll may be higher.

人们担心伤亡人数可能会更多。

Training includes realistic simulation of casualty procedures.

训练包括伤亡处理程序的实际模拟。

The victims were rushed to casualty.

受伤者被迅速送往急救室。

强化记忆

你可以将 "casual-"和"ty"划分开来记。"Casual-" 可与 "casual"这个形容词挂钩，一种随意、偶然的含义；"-ty" 后缀让它转变为名词。所以，"casualty" 指的就是那些偶然发生，使人受伤或死亡的事故中的伤亡人数。"Casualty"这个词的使用起源于14世纪的英国，最初的含义为"偶然的事件"，在数个世纪的语言演变过程中，它逐渐演变为现在表示伤亡和损失的含义。

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They were sent out on the most dangerous missionsand they sustained the highest combat casualty rateof any unit proportionally.

But the archaeologist Lawrence Keeley,looking at casualty rates among contemporary hunter-gatherers,which is our best source of evidence about this way of life,

the intensity of the combat has gone down.As a result, the casualty rates have gone down.But disability rates have gone up.

The recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have produced, thank God,a casualty rate about one third of what it was in Vietnam.But they've also created --

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