mortal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 必有一死的; 致命的; 极端的, 极大的; n. 致命性, 死亡数, 死亡率; 人，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness.
-- He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three or four perhaps.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wood-sawyer, who held her in the respect, and him-self in the submission, of mortal fear, advanced with his hand to his red cap.
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：
-- The Clerk felt a mortal fright, and flew through the window, far away over the houses and streets.
-- They were not elfin maidens, but mortal children.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Agafea Mihalovna, to the nurse, to his grandfather, to his father even, Mitya was a living being, requiring only materiel care, but for his mother he had long been a mortal being, with whom there had been a whole series of spiritual relations already.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fix was in mortal suspense.
-- Passepartout understood it all; he was seized with mortal anxiety.
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：
-- The last moment had come, the last drops had to be drained!So a man will sometimes go through half an hour of mortal terror with a brigand, yet when the knife is at his throat at last, he feels no fear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sit ye down by the fire, thewhile, my dear, and warm these mortal cold hands.
-- But all of my ownsex- especially one impostor, three or four years my elder, with ared whisker, on which he established an amount of presumptionnot to be endured- were my mortal foes.
-- I knew thatit was base in me not to think more of my aunt, and less of myself;but, so far, selfishness was inseparable from Dora, and I could notput Dora on one side for any mortal creature.
-- I said to Miss Mills that this was very true, and who should knowit better than I, who loved Dora with a love that never mortal hadexperienced yet?
-- As aman upon a field of battle will receive a mortal hurt, and scarcelyknow that he is struck, so I, when I was left alone with myundisciplined heart, had no conception of the wound with which ithad to strive.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Owing to the great hurry necessitated by the far-gone state of some of the flock, Gabriel missed his aim in one case, and in one only striking wide of the mark, and inflicting a mortal blow at once upon the suffering ewe.
-- They walked together into the village until they came to a little lane behind the church, leading down to the cottage of Laban Tall, who had lately been installed as clerk of the parish, and was yet in mortal terror at church on Sundays when he heard his lone voice among certain hard words of the Psalms, whither no man ventured to follow him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!No mortal could support the horror of that coun-tenance.
-- Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother's eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame.
-- I trembled with rage and horror, resolving to wait his approach and then close with him in mortal combat.
-- I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn 197down a horrible curse upon my head, as mortal as that of crime.
-- Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once she wouldhave thought this omission a mortal sin but, somehow, staying away from church did not seem so sinful now as itformerly had.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the iron leg; I was in mortal terror of myself, from whom an awful promise had been extracted; I had no hope of deliverance through my all-powerful sister, who repulsed me at every turn; I am afraid to think of what I might have done on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror.
-- "And last of all, Pip,--and this I want to say very serious to you, old chap,--I see so much in my poor mother, of a woman drudging and slaving and breaking her honest hart and never getting no peace in her mortal days, that I'm dead afeerd of going wrong in the way of not doing what's right by a woman, and I'd fur rather of the two go wrong the t'other way, and be a little ill-conwenienced myself.
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