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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The relatives had not forgotten that the "Waidoua," the spirit of the dead, lives on mortal food, as the body did in this life.
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：
-- But it was not the sight of her body, nor yet was it that of the body of Hugo Baskerville lying near her, which raised the hair upon the heads of these three daredevil roys-terers, but it was that, standing over Hugo, and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon.
-- I've never breathed a word about it yet to mortal man.
-- A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, Patroclus, bring her and give her to them, but let them be witnesses by the blessed gods, by mortal men, and by the fierceness of Agamemnon's anger, that if ever again there be need of me to save the people from ruin, they shall seek and they shall not find.
-- But Menelaus reassured him and said, 'Take heart, and do not alarm the people; the arrow has not struck me in a mortal part, for my outer belt of burnished metal first stayed it, and under this my cuirass and the belt of mail which the bronze-smiths made me.'
-- Thereon Hades went to the house of Jove on great Olympus, angry and full of pain; and the arrow in his brawny shoulder caused him great anguish till Paeeon healed him by spreading soothing herbs on the wound, for Hades was not of mortal mould.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The phrase would have given nobody mortal offence.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought you had too much pride and sense to truckle to any mortal woman just because she wears French boots and rides in a coupe,' said Jo, who, being called from the tragic climax of her nov-el, was not in the best mood for social enterprises.
-- I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.'
-- One night when Beth looked among the books upon her table, to find something to make her forget the mortal wea-riness that was almost as hard to bear as pain, as she turned the leaves of her old favorite, Pilgrims's Progress, she found a little paper, scribbled over in Jo's hand.
-- He did not give the complacent wraith any name, but he took her for his heroine and grew quite fond of her, as well he might, for he gifted her with every gift and grace under the sun, and escorted her, unscathed, through trials which would have annihilated any mortal woman.
-- We were so absorbed in one another we were of no mortal use apart, and that charming arrangement would make everything easy all round, so we did it.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What do you see? Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.
-- To this, in substance, he replied, that though what I hinted was true enough, yet he had a particular affection for his own harpoon, because it was of assured stuff, well tried in many a mortal combat, and deeply intimate with the hearts of whales.
-- Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
-- If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind!Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God!who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly hammered leaves of finest gold, the stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!Thou who, in all Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest Thy selectest champions from the kingly commons; bear me out in it, O God!
-- I say this continual smoking must have been one cause, at least, of his peculiar disposition; for every one knows that this earthly air, whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it; and as in time of the cholera, some people go about with a camphorated handkerchief to their mouths; so, likewise, against all mortal tribulations, Stubb's tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort of disinfecting agent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.
-- The younger lady was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at that age, when, if ever angels be for God's good purposes enthroned in mortal forms, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This young gentleman is blessed, in a peculiar way, with every thing the heart of mortal can most desire, splen-did property, noble kindred, and extensive patronage.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as he came fairly within my reach, I fired, and shot him directly in the head; immediately he sank down into the water, but rose instantly, and plunged up and down, as if he were struggling for life, and so indeed he was; he immediately made to the shore; but between the wound, which was his mortal hurt, and the strangling of the water, he died just before he reached the shore.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a sweet little mortal to him--there was no doubt of that.
-- He was wholly disconsolate in spirit, hungry to what he deemed an almost mortal extent, weary, and defeated.
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