fatal accident

基本解释

A fatal accident happens there every couple of weeks, 100-200 people perish there every year.
那里每几个星期就有一次重大的交通事故发生，每年有100到200人丧生。
Investors seem riveted by what is happening, as if they were the witnesses to a fatal accident unspooling in slow motion before their eyes.
投资者似乎被眼下发生的事情定格了，就好像他们的眼前正以慢镜头回放着一起伤亡事故惨状。
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Officials in both Chile and Argentina are getting increasingly worried about the risk of a fatal accident—“a new Titanic” as one Chilean naval officer puts it.
智利和阿根廷的官方都越来越担心会发生重大事故——“又一个泰坦尼克号”，一个智利海军官员这样形容。

Alu Alkhanov, the current president, may be hoping to fall victim to a non-fatal accident.
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Had Gunkanjima ended in, for example, a massacre, fatal accident or storm, it would have rendered the island hallowed ground.
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