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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were stronger differences between him and her than there had been between him and his father, and it is suspected that he cherished a deep and mortal grudge against her as having influenced the father's anger.
-- That Compeyson stood in mortal fear of him, neither of the two could know much better than I; and that any such man as that man had been described to be would hesitate to release himself for good from a dreaded enemy by the safe means of becoming an informer was scarcely to be imagined.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Caw!Caw!well I ween 315 Mortal lips have this way been.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had sent so many memorials and petitions for my lib-erty, that his majesty at length mentioned the matter, first in the cabinet, and then in a full council; where it was op-posed by none, except Skyresh Bolgolam, who was pleased, without any provocation, to be my mortal enemy.
-- 'You are very sensible that Skyresh Bolgolam' (galbet, or high- admiral) 'has been your mortal enemy, almost ever since your arrival.
-- I then fastened my handkerchief to a stick I usually carried, and thrusting it up the hole, waved it several times in the air, that if any boat or ship were near, the seamen might conjec-ture some unhappy mortal to be shut up in the box.
-- I said, 'I had not;' and desired he would ex- plain to me 'what he meant by such an appellation, applied to a mortal creature.'
-- He said, 'these births were so rare, that he did not believe there could be above eleven hundred struldbrugs, of both sexes, in the whole kingdom; of which he computed about fifty in the metropolis, and, among the rest, a young girl born; about three years ago: that these productions were not pe-culiar to any family, but a mere effect of chance; and the children of the struldbrugs themselves were equally mortal with the rest of the people.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (Master Kidderminster was Cupid's mortal name.)
-- Wandering to and fro, unceasingly, without hope, and in search of he knew not what (he only knew that he was doomed to seek it), he was the subject of a nameless, horrible dread, a mortal fear of one particular shape which everything took.
-- That done, he strolled away idly, stopping in the street and looking up it and down it, and lifting his hat off and putting it on again, and yawning and stretching himself, and exhibiting all the symptoms of mortal weariness to be expected in one who had still to wait until the next train should come in, an hour and forty minutes hence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For three mortal hours he continued without speaking a word, without raising his head, scratching, rewriting, calculating over and over again.
-- At last have mortal eyes gazed upon two reptiles of the great primitive ocean!I see the flaming red eyes of the Ichthyosaurus, each as big, or bigger than a man's head.
-- Such a combat was never seen before by mortal eyes, and to us who did see it, it appeared more like the phantasmagoric creation of a dream than anything else.
-- We advanced with great difficulty over the broken masses of granite mixed with flint, quartz, and alluvial deposits, when a large field, more even than a field, a plain of bones, appeared suddenly before our eyes!It looked like an immense cemetery, where generation after generation had mingled their mortal dust.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But still she was afraid of how many of her roots, perhaps mortal ones, were tangled with Clifford's.
-- But I don't envy Sir Malcolm his inveterate mortal carnality.
-- Ap-parently one grows more carnal and more mortal as one grows older.
-- It is our mortal destiny, I suppose, to prey upon the ghastly subaqueous life of our fellow-men, in the submarine jungle of mankind.
-- They then proceeded to take legal steps against my liege lady, who for her part disappeared, having always had a mortal fear of the police.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Mr Arthur found the house so blank and dreary, and was so unwilling to assist at another implacable consignment of his mother's enemies (perhaps himself among them) to mortal disfigurement and immortal ruin, that he announced his intention of lodging at the coffee-house where he had left his luggage.
-- The doctor was amazingly shabby, in a torn and darned rough-weather sea-jacket, out at elbows and eminently short of buttons (he had been in his time the experienced surgeon carried by a passenger ship), the dirtiest white trousers conceivable by mortal man, carpet slippers, and no visible linen.
-- It was an affecting illustration of the fallacy of human projects, to behold her lover, with the great hat pulled over his eyes, the velvet collar turned up as if it rained, the plum-coloured coat buttoned to conceal the silken waistcoat of golden sprigs, and the little direction-post pointing inexorably home, creeping along by the worst back-streets, and composing, as he went, the following new inscription for a tombstone in St George's Churchyard:'Here lie the mortal remains Of JOHN CHIVERY, Never anything worth mentioning, Who died about the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, Of a broken heart, Requesting with his last breath that the word AMY might be inscribed over his ashes, which was accordingly directed to be done, By his afflicted Parents.'
-- With such mortal hostility towards the human race did she discharge this missile, that Clennam was quite at a loss how to defend himself; the rather as he had been already perplexed in his mind by the honour of a visit from this venerable lady, when it was plain she held him in the utmost abhorrence.
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