casualty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 伤亡人员，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nevertheless, so well did he succeed in that dissembling, that when with ivory leg he stepped ashore at last, no Nantucketer thought him otherwise than but naturally grieved, and that to the quick, with the terrible casualty which had overtaken him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the fine gentlemen not regularly belonging to the Gradgrind school, there was one of a good family and a better appearance, with a happy turn of humour which had told immensely with the House of Commons on the occasion of his entertaining it with his (and the Board of Directors) view of a railway accident, in which the most careful officers ever known, employed by the most liberal managers ever heard of, assisted by the finest mechanical contrivances ever devised, the whole in action on the best line ever constructed, had killed five people and wounded thirty-two, by a casualty without which the excellence of the whole system would have been positively incomplete.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But hideous rumors that Lee was killed, the battle lost, and enormous casualty lists coming in, fled up anddown the quiet streets like darting bats.
-- "I came to tell you ladies," he said loudly, "that I have been to headquarters and the first casualty lists are comingin."
-- How good God was to pass him by!How She heard a low moan and, turning, saw Fanny Elsing lay her head on her mother's bosom, saw the casualty listflutter to the floor of the carriage, saw Mrs. Elsing's thin lips quiver as she gathered her daughter in her arms and saidquietly to the coachman: "Home.
-- Longer casualty lists tomorrow!
-- Every day she had read the casualty lists, read them with her heart in her throat, knowing that the world wouldend if anything should happen to him.
扩展阅读：暂无