fatality
/fəˈtælətɪ/noun
(pl. -ies)
1
- an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease（事故、战争、疾病引起的）死亡事件：
shooting was heard and there were fatalities.
人们听见了枪声并发生了死亡事件。
1.1
- a person killed in this way死亡者。
2
- mass noun helplessness in the face of fate听天由命; 天命; 天数：
the plot needs a darker sense of fatality to cover its absurdities.
这个情节得有一种更蒙昧的听天由命的观念来掩饰其荒谬性。
词源
late 15th cent. (denoting the quality of causing death or disaster)： from French fatalité or late Latin fatalitas, from Latin fatalis 'decreed by fate', from fatum （see FATE）. Sense 1 dates from the mid 19th cent.