| 词组 | casualty |
| 释义 | casualty Partridge 1942, citing A. P. Herbert, strongly disapproves of the sense of casualty that means "a person killed or injured"; he would restrict it to its original meaning of "a serious or fatal accident." Copperud 1970 reports that all of his authorities consider the extended sense standard, and the OED Supplement dates it back to 1844. The objection would seem to be a dead issue. The extended sense has even sprung further extensions: • ... those whose minds and livers fell casualty to the two-martini lunch —Michael Korda, TV. Y. Times, 2 Nov. 1977 • The TV season claimed its first casualty yesterday when ABC announced it was yanking its rapidly failing new comedy —Baltimore Sun, 12 Nov. 1981 • ... strongly suggests the need for new and better ways of handling the casualties of divorce —Daniel Goldstine, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 24 July 1983 |
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