| 词汇 | death-toll |
| 释义 | death toll noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˈdeθ ˌtəʊl/ us /ˈdeθ ˌtoʊl/ the number of people who die because of an event such as a war or an accident: 死亡人数 The day after the explosion the death toll had risen to 90.爆炸后的第二天死亡人数已上升到了90人。 Death and dying all-cause mortality antemortem bereave bite bleed out coroner ghost give up the ghostidiom have one foot in the graveidiom macabre perish posthumously raise raise someone from the deadidiom remains roadkill self-extinction sepulchrally snuff itidiom toll death toll | American Dictionarydeath toll noun[ C ] us/ˈdeθ ˌtoʊl/ the number of people who died as a result of an event: The day after the earthquake the death toll had risen to 90. Examples of death tolldeath toll The annual deathtoll from infectious diseases is now more than 17 million. The deathtoll keeps increasing, even as politicians struggle to negotiate their individual share in the shrinking national pie. The annual deathtoll went in both towns from less than 5,000 burials per annum around 1600 to around 20,000 in the 1670s. From the deathtoll, we turn now to the dogs' suffering. On the other hand, he is diffident towards attempts to minimise the deathtoll involved (p. 175) or to play down political responsibilities. In their absence, some observers have tried to calculate the deathtoll in 1947 by comparing census data. Independent of which estimate represents the actual deathtoll, there is no disagreement about the severity of this famine. The living conditions in these camps are deplorable, and the deathtoll from dehydration, hunger and diseases has been alarming. In addition to sparking a particularly violent ethnic conflict, this coup attempt was the deathtoll for a remarkable political turn-around. The ensuing deathtoll from the combined effects of the occupation amounted to 200,000 by 1979 alone, out of a starting population of fewer than 700,000. The deathtoll is impossible to calculate. The objection to the apparently compulsive use of such phrases as 'raging inferno' and 'deathtoll' is precisely that they may have lost their impact by constant use. The deathtoll for 2005 was 41 500 people. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We now know about the deathtoll and therefore we have a moral obligation to ban tobacco advertising. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Who could be with an annual deathtoll of over 5,000 and an annual total of injured of over 200,000? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of death toll These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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