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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The real tree of life would then be rid of the most ghastly, heavy crop of Dead Sea Fruit, the intolerable burden of myriad simulacra of people, an infinite weight of mortal lies."
-- If you wouldn't let them smash their pots on the table, if you wouldn't let them drag the kitten about with a string round its neck, if you wouldn't give them whatever they asked for, every mortal thing then there was a shine on, and their mother coming in asking 'What's the matter with him?
-- He was afraid, in mortal dry fear, but he knew not what of.
-- Yet it was not childish, it was a mortal conflict, a deep wound.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile, the young man had slung on to his person a decidedly shabby upper garment, and, erecting himself before the blaze, looked down on me from the corner of his eyes, for all the world as if there were some mortal feud unavenged between us.
-- And that minx, Catherine Linton, or Earnshaw, or however she was called she must have been a changeling wicked little soul!She told me she had been walking the earth these twenty years: a just punishment for her mortal transgressions, I've no doubt!
-- They'll meet the fate of Milo!Not as long as I live, Ellen: for no mortal creature.
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