fatal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 致命的; 灾难性的; 命中注定的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he cared to talk, he talked well; but, the cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.
-- Down, and up, and head foremost on the steps of the building; now, on his knees; now, on his feet; now, on his back; dragged, and struck at, and stifled by the bunches of grass and straw that were thrust into his face by hundreds of hands; torn, bruised, panting, bleeding, yet always en-treating and beseeching for mercy; now full of vehement agony of action, with a small clear space about him as the people drew one another back that they might see; now, a log of dead wood drawn through a forest of legs; he was hauled to the nearest street corner where one of the fatal lamps swung, and there Madame Defarge let him go as a cat might have done to a mouse and silently and com-posedly looked at him while they made ready, and while he besought her: the women passionately screeching at him all 319the time, and the men sternly calling out to have him killed with grass in his mouth.
-- I solemnly swear to you that I know of no harm having happened to Charles; that I had no suspicion even of his being in this fatal place.
-- Once de-nounced, and on such grave grounds as had just now been 430 A tale of two citiessuggested to his mind, he foresaw that the dreadful woman of whose unrelenting character he had seen many proofs, would produce against him that fatal register, and would quash his last chance of life.
-- But, now I believe that the mark of the red cross is fatal to them, and that they have no part in His mercies.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No; he will be very unhappy, and will as-suredly bless the moment when he feels that he has freed himself from the fatal shoes.'
-- He did so; but just as he was going, the others remarked what he was about; they laid hold of him by the legs; and now, happily for him, off fell his fatal shoes and with them the charm was at an end.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I tell you what you might try," he said more than once; "go to so-and-so and so-and-so," and the solicitor drew up a regular plan for getting round the fatal point that hindered everything.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali.
-- Phileas Fogg was therefore justified in hoping that he would reach San Francisco by the 2nd of December, New York by the 11th, and London on the 20th thus gaining several hours on the fatal date of the 21st of December.
-- The bad weather, however, annoyed Passepartout; for the accumulation of snow, by blocking the wheels of the cars, would certainly have been fatal to Mr. Fogg's tour.
-- Whatever his punctuality, he could not prevent the delays which were certain to occur; and a delay of only two or three days would be fatal to his tour."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was conscious that in the cotton-plugged test-tube between the instrument-bath and the bichloride jar on the demonstrator's desk were millions of fatal anthrax germs.
-- He was absent-minded in the laboratory, that fatal next day.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I believe it's a sort of legal rule, a sort of legal tra-dition for all investigating lawyers to begin their attack from afar, with a trivial, or at least an irrelevant subject, so as to encourage, or rather, to divert the man they are cross-examining, to disarm his caution and then all at once to give him an unexpected knock-down blow with some fatal question.
-- My heart sank at once, and to-day when I opened the door and looked at you, I thought the fatal hour had come.
-- It wrung his heart 芒聙娄 but he was just reaching the fatal place.
-- Dounia remembered her brother's tell-ing her that her mother had overheard her talking in her sleep on the night after her interview with Svidriga脙炉lov and before the fatal day of the confession: had not she made out something from that?
-- He predicted that their moth-er's illness would soon have a fatal ending.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I avoided the recognition of this feeling by any name, or byany communing with myself; until one night, when it was verystrong upon me, and my aunt had left her with a parting cry of'Good-night, Little Blossom,' I sat down at my desk alone, andcried to think, Oh what a fatal name it was, and how the blossomwithered in its bloom upon the tree!
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kitty, a fair but frozen maid, Kindled a flame I yet deplore, 96 Emma The hood-wink'd boy I called to aid, Though of his near approach afraid, So fatal to my suit before.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.
-- Boldwood's deep attachment was a matter of great interest among all around him; but, after having been pointed out for so many years as the perfect exemplar of thriving bachelorship, his lapse was an anticlimax somewhat resembling that of St. John Long's death by consumption in the midst of his proofs that it was not a fatal disease.
-- It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful.
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