| 单词 | collateral damage |
| 释义 | collateral damage (once / 33578 pages) n WORD FAMILY collateral damage USAGE EXAMPLES“We want accuracy, we want placement, we don’t want collateral damage.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 19, 2016) To that extent, Lagarde’s trial was just collateral damage, although the Socialists were obviously happy for any opportunity to embarrass a political opponent. Time(Dec 19, 2016) The collateral damage to ordinary Venezuelans is huge. Wall Street Journal(Dec 18, 2016) n (euphemism) inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations Hyper casualty, fatal accident an accident that causes someone to die |
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