casualty 的定义
plural cas·u·al·ties.
- Military. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined.casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.
- one who is injured or killed in an accident: There were no casualties in the traffic accident.
- any person, group, thing, etc., that is harmed or destroyed as a result of some act or event: Their house was a casualty of the fire.
- a serious accident, especially one involving bodily injury or death.
casualty 近义词
accident
victim
更多casualty例句
- When the teaching of reading is framed as a war, nuance and common areas of agreement are casualties.
- I fully expect this vaccination program will be the next casualty of over promising and under delivering.
- COP26 was just one of many conference casualties, of course—but climate commitments kept coming despite predictions that action on the issue might completely fall by the wayside as the world battled the virus.
- Both, in his view, are casualties of a presidency that has downplayed or dismissed science and medicine in the pursuit of political gain.
- Chrysler continued to produce engines in Kenosha until 2010, when it became a casualty of the company’s bankruptcy.
- All Cohen needed to do was add “of blessed memory” after each political casualty was mentioned.
- When faced with multiple casualty reports, AFP usually adopts the lower number.
- By that logic however, Carol is also being floated as a possible casualty of the episode.
- Aside from casualty figures, the books told me very little about what happened to the people.
- But that era is ending, a casualty of newspaper economics and a changing society.
- (a) Was the apparatus for lowering the boats on the Titanic at the time of the casualty in good working order?
- (a) What messages for assistance were sent by the Titanic after the casualty, and at what times respectively?
- (a) Was ice seen and reported by anybody on board the Titanic before the casualty occurred?
- (b) How long after the casualty was its seriousness realized by those in charge of the vessel (c) What steps were then taken?
- (a) How many persons on board the Titanic at the time of the casualty were ultimately rescued and by what means?