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单词 fatally
释义 fa·tal·ly
\ˈfād.əlē, ˈfātəl-, -əli\ adverb
Etymology: Middle English, from fatal + -ly
1. : in a way established or determined by fate
 < who would not say, with Huxley, let me be wound up every day like a watch, to go right fatally, and I ask no better freedom — William James >
 < the temptation becomes more and more insidious and she is more fatally bound to yield — H.M.Parshley >
2. : in a manner suggesting fate or an act of fate : inevitably or implacably
 < a man fatally stern >
 < a kind of action that brings one fatally to perdition >
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 a. : in a manner resulting in death : mortally
  < fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun >
 b. : beyond repair : irrevocably
  < find himself fatally humiliated before a hard cadre of French officers because he had not pulled his chauffeur out of a burning jeep — J.W.Chase >
  < a conflict of ideas that will fatally divide the victors if they are not reconciled — F.S.Kinney >
 c. : in a manner resulting in ruin or evil : disastrously
  < this fatally ingenious explanation proved an obstacle for some time to a true view of the funciton of the arterial system — Benjamin Farrington >
  < it is fatally easy to pass off our prejudices as our opinions — W.F.Hambly >
 d. : irresistibly
  < fatally attracted by vigorous, strong-willed women — Time >
  < thinks she is fatally attractive — J.W.Krutch >
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