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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some god is ever by his side to protect him, and now Mars is with him in the likeness of mortal man.
-- He then bade Paeeon heal him, whereon Paeeon spread pain-killing herbs upon his wound and cured him, for he was not of mortal mould.
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：
-- 'The one is, to be still as these sleeping woods, let what will happen and the other is, to keep the place where we shall take you, forever a secret from all mortal men.'
-- 'An Indian is a mortal to be felt afore he is seen,' returned the scout, ascending the rock, and throwing the deer care-lessly down.
-- There is no whine of the panther, no whistle of the catbird, nor any invention of the devilish Mingoes, that can cheat me!I have heard the forest moan like mortal men in their affliction; often, and again, have I listened to the wind play-ing its music in the branches of the girdled trees; and I have heard the lightning cracking in the air like the snapping of blazing brush as it spitted forth sparks and forked flames; but never have I thought that I heard more than the plea-sure of him who sported with the things of his hand.
-- If you are led into the woods, that is such of you as may be spared for awhile, break the twigs on the bushes as you pass, and make the marks of your trail as broad as you can, when, if mortal eyes can see them, de-pend on having a friend who will follow to the ends of the 'arth afore he desarts you.'
-- Yes, yes; I was then young, and new to the sight of blood; and not relishing the thought that creatures who had spirits like myself should lay on the naked ground, to be torn asunder by beasts, or to bleach in the rains, I buried the dead with my own hands, under that very little hillock where you have placed your-selves; and no bad seat does it make neither, though it be raised by the bones of mortal men.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phan-toms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambula-tions, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was a woman.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was possible that others existed whose bite was mortal such as the deaf vipers with forked tails, which rise up under the feet, or those winged snakes, furnished with two ears, which enable them to proceed with great rapidity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had stopped to rest beneath a finger-post where four roads met, and Mr Codlin in his deep misanthropy had let down the drapery and seated himself in the bottom of the show, invisible to mortal eyes and disdainful of the company of his fellow creatures, when two monstrous shadows were seen stalking towards them from a turning in the road by which they had come.
-- The address was given, the two men departed, the crowd went with them, and the single gentleman for two mortal hours walked in uncommon agitation up and down his room, over the wondering heads of Mr Swiveller and Miss Sally Brass.
-- 'All I know, my dear feller,' said Mr Chuckster, running his fingers through his hair, 'is, that he is the cause of my having stood here twenty minutes, for which I hate him with a mortal and undying hatred, and would pursue him to the confines of eternity if I could afford the time.'
-- Another mortal struggle, and he was up again, beating the water with his hands, and looking out, with wild and glaring eyes that showed him some black object he was drifting close upon.
-- And even when the rest have in some measure come to themselves again, and can find words and smiles, Barbara that soft-hearted, gentle, foolish little Barbara is suddenly missed, and found to be in a swoon by herself in the back parlour, from which swoon she falls into hysterics, and from which hysterics into a swoon again, and is, indeed, so bad, that despite a mortal quantity of vinegar and cold water she is hardly a bit better at last than she was at first.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be as wrong an explanation as mortal wit could invent.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Probably I should have told the whole story to the doctor, for I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.
-- The expression of his face was not so much of terror as of mortal sickness.
-- The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cutwater.
-- If you like the service, well, you'll jine; and if you don't, Jim, why, you're free to answer no free and welcome, shipmate; and if fairer can be said by mortal seaman, shiver my sides!"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The second lieutenant loaded the blunder busses, which could throw harpoons to the distance of a mile, and long duck-guns, with explosive bullets, which inflicted mortal wounds even to the most terrible animals.
-- Whoever touched it felt a powerful shock and this shock would have been mortal if Captain Nemo had discharged into the conductor the whole force of the current.
-- I felt a mortal cold freeze my stiffened and half-paralysed limbs.
-- Indeed, the mystery of that last night during which we had been chained in prison, the sleep, and the precaution so violently taken by the Captain of snatching from my eyes the glass I had raised to sweep the horizon, the mortal wound of the man, due to an unaccountable shock of the Nautilus, all put me on a new track.
-- A mortal dread hung over me, and I vainly tried to regain my accustomed coolness.
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