With a sap (blackjack) or an unarmed strike, a psychic rogue can make a sneak attack that deals nonlethal damage instead of lethal damage.

使用闷棍或徒手攻击时，灵能游荡者可以在偷袭时造成非致命伤害而不是一般伤害。

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However, it can't assign combat damage to a creature that's blocking it unless each creature that precedes that blocking creature in its order is assigned lethal damage.

但是，如果在其之前序列的正在阻挡的生物没有被分配到致命伤害，则不能对其分配伤害。

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In hospital more things go wrong because intervention is more common, but the complications are less likely to be lethal or to cause permanent damage.

在医院，由于干预情况更普遍，出事的情况多，但不太可能出现致命或导致永久损害的并发症。

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But whether they actually do this or whether sub-lethal effects occur and damage the colonies on any important scale has not been proven.

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The explosive is lethal but small, designed to minimize the collateral damage that has plagued the much larger Predator strikes.

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That means that the collateral effects radius they will use to plan an operation will likely be much larger than the 15ft lethal effects radius. (For nearly everything you could ever want to know about collateral damage estimation and mitigation, see my paper here and for more on civilian casualties, check out my prior post here).

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