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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never was there such a single-minded enthu-siast as he!The Stapletons came in afterwards, and the good doctor took us all to the Yew Alley, at Sir Henry's request, to show us exactly how everything occurred upon that fatal night.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We may mention that Gania was no longer mentioned in the Epanchin household any more than the prince was; but that a certain circumstance in connection with the fatal evening at Nastasia's house became known to the general, and, in fact, to all the family the very next day.
-- I believe animals are incapable of feeling supernatural fright if I have been rightly informed, but at this moment there appeared to me to be something more than ordinary about Norma's ter-ror, as though it must be supernatural; and as though she felt, just as I did myself, that this reptile was connected with some mysterious secret, some fatal omen.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though the arts of peace were unknown to this fatal region, its forests were alive with men; its shades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the echoes of its mountains threw back the laugh, or repeated the wan-ton cry, of many a gallant and reckless youth, as he hurried by them, in the noontide of his spirits, to slumber in a long night of forgetfulness.
-- The imbecility of her military leaders abroad, and the fatal want of energy in her councils at home, had lowered the character of Great Britain from the proud elevation on which it had been placed by the talents and enterprise of her former warriors and statesmen.
-- He had just fan-cied they were cruelly deserted by their scout, as a stream of flame issued from the rock beneath them, and a fierce yell, blended with a shriek of agony, announced that the mes-senger of death sent from the fatal weapon of Hawkeye, had found a victim.
-- A long and anxious watch succeeded, but without any further evidences of a renewed attack; and Duncan began to hope that their fire had proved more fatal than was sup-posed, and that their enemies had been effectually repulsed.
-- When their foes, who had leaped over the black rocks that divided them, with long bounds, uttering the wildest yells, were within a few rods, the rifle of Hawkeye slowly rose among the shrubs, and poured out its fatal contents.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I give you my oath, constable, that down to a few minutes ago, when this fatal discovery was made, I had such confidence in that lad, that I'd have trusted him with a hackney-coach, Mr Richard, sir; you're very slow, Sir.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would not my absence itself be an evidence to them of my alarm, and therefore of my fatal knowledge?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Any moment a collision might have occurred which would have been fatal to us.
-- But this return to the upper strata was not so sudden as to cause relief from the pressure too rapidly, which might have produced serious disorder in our organisation, and brought on internal lesions, so fatal to divers.
-- It did not follow the routes of the Astrolabe and the Zelee exactly, for they proved fatal to Dumont d'Urville.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He shook his head with fatal misgiving.
-- It was the same every evening when she came home, she seemed to move through a wave of disruptive force, that was given off from the presence of thousands of vigorous, underworld, half-automatised colliers, and which went to the brain and the heart, awaking a fatal desire, and a fatal callousness.
-- All had a secret sense of power, and of inexpressible destructiveness, and of fatal half-heartedness, a sort of rottenness in the will.
-- "It is fatal to use the will like that," cried Birkin harshly, "disgusting.
-- This strange sense of fatality in Gerald, as if he were limited to one form of existence, one knowledge, one activity, a sort of fatal halfness, which to himself seemed wholeness, always overcame Birkin after their moments of passionate approach, and filled him with a sort of contempt, or boredom.
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