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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not a woman who could hope on without good materials for the process, differing thus from the less far-sighted and energetic, though more petted ones of the sex, with whom hope goes on as a sort of clockwork which the merest food and shelter are sufficient to wind up; and perceiving clearly that her mistake had been a fatal one, she accepted her position, and waited coldly for the end.
-- Oak had in some slight measure been prepared for the presence of Troy by hearing a rumour of his return just before entering Boldwood's house; but before he had weighed that information, this fatal event had been superimposed.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was so lucky as to light upon some one who did not laugh at his ignorance, a fatal defect among the gilded and insolent youth of that period; the coterie of Maulincourts, Maximes de Trailles, de Marsays, Ronquerolles, Ajuda-Pintos, and Vandenesses who shone there in all the glory of coxcombry among the best-dressed women of fashion in Paris--Lady Brandon, the Duchesse de Langeais, the Comtesse de Kergarouet, Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin.
-- She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her preserver.
-- I felt also sentiments of joy and affection re-vive in my bosom; my gloom disappeared, and in a short time I became as cheerful as before I was attacked by the fatal passion.
-- Ever since the fatal night, the end of my labours, and the beginning of my mis-fortunes, I had conceived a violent antipathy even to the name of natural philosophy.
-- I dared not ask the fatal question, but I was known, and the officer guessed the cause of my visit.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For this and other reasons, Gerald's family was not inclined to view the fatal outcome of this quarrel as anythingvery serious, except for the fact that it was charged with serious consequences.
-- Doctors might say that fresh air was fatal in a sick room but if she were to sithere, she must have air or die.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At once ferocious and maudlin, I was made to murder my uncle with no extenuating circumstances whatever; Millwood put me down in argument, on every occasion; it became sheer monomania in my master's daughter to care a button for me; and all I can say for my gasping and procrastinating conduct on the fatal morning, is, that it was worthy of the general feebleness of my character.
-- Wemmick tightened his post-office and shook his head, as if his opinion were dead against any fatal weakness of that sort.
-- "I have seen it, Herbert, and dreamed of it, ever since the fatal night of his arrival.
-- "Estella, dearest Estella, do not let Miss Havisham lead you into this fatal step.
-- As to leading me into what you call this fatal step, Miss Havisham would have had me wait, and not marry yet; but I am tired of the life I have led, which has very few charms for me, and I am willing enough to change it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents, whereof great numbers are on record.
-- But they thought the want of moral virtues was so far from being supplied by superior endowments of the mind, that employments could never be put into such dan- 67gerous hands as those of persons so qualified; and, at least, that the mistakes committed by ignorance, in a virtuous disposition, would never be of such fatal consequence to the public weal, as the practices of a man, whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and who had great abilities to man-age, to multiply, and defend his corruptions.
-- He lamented 'the fatal mistake the world had been so long in, of using silkworms, while we had such plenty of domestic insects who infinitely excelled the former, because they understood how to weave, as well as spin.'
-- Now your honour is to know, that these judges are persons appointed to decide all controversies of proper-ty, as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy; and having been biassed all their lives against truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of favouring fraud, perju-ry, and oppression, that I have known some of them refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty, by doing any thing unbecoming their na-ture or their office.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fatal moment had, however, at last arrived.
-- To him I knew this would be the last fatal stroke.
-- I must find the fatal bifurcation or fork.
-- Then he quietly returned towards the fatal rocks, against which the furious waves were beating, in order to save any stray waifs from the wreck.
-- It was useless attempting to conceal from ourselves the fatal truth.
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