Mortal
['mɔːt(ə)l] or ['mɔrtl]
解释:
(adj.) subject to death; 'mortal beings' .
(adj.) unrelenting and deadly; 'mortal enemy' .
阿纳托尔校对--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
(a.) Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
(a.) Fatally vulnerable; vital.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the time of death.
(a.) Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
(a.) Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.
(a.) Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.
(n.) A being subject to death; a human being; man.
校对:惠特尼
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Subject to death, destined to die.[2]. Deadly, fatal, destructive.[3]. Extreme, violent, unto death, likely to kill.[4]. Human, of man.[5]. [Colloquial.] Long, tedious, trying.
n. Man, human being.
达伦编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Human, ephemeral, sublunary, short-lived, deadly, fatal, perishable,destructive
ANT:Divine, Immortal, celestial, life-giving, venial, salutiferous, superficial,Mortality,[See DEATH]
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解释:
adj. liable to die: causing death: deadly: fatal: punishable with death: involving the penalty of spiritual death as opposed to Venial: extreme violent implacable: human: (coll.) very great very long confounded very drunk.—n. a human being.—v.t. Mor′talise to make mortal.—n. Mortal′ity condition of being mortal: death: frequency or number of deaths esp. in proportion to population: the human race.—adv. Mor′tally—(coll.) Mor′tal.—ns. Mort′-cloth a pall; Mort′-stone a stone by the wayside on which the bearers lay the bier for a rest during a funeral procession.—Bills of mortality lists of the numbers of those who have died in any place during any given time; Law of mortality rules founded on experience or calculation showing what average proportion of those living at the beginning of a given time will be surviving at its close.
整理:斯特拉
例句:
- Her honest ostentatious nature made the sharing of a merited dishonor as bitter as it could be to any mortal. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- A cursory examination of the latter revealed no mortal injuries and after a brief rest he asserted that he felt fit to attempt the return voyage. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- If you will, for once in your life, remember that you are mortal, perhaps you will thoroughly understand him too. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I said to Miss Mills that this was very true, and who should know it better than I, who loved Dora with a love that never mortal had experienced yet? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The cries of the gorilla proclaimed that it was in mortal combat with some other denizen of the fierce wood. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- I am as happy as any mortal can hope to be. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Quashy shall do my will, and not his, all the days of his mortal life, and have such chance of getting to heaven, at last, as I find convenient. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- 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. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- We also approve of one, who is possessed of qualities, that are immediately agreeable to himself; though they be of no service to any mortal. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Who knows; we are but mortal, even marquises and dukes are but mortal. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- A number of persons crowded into a small room thus spoil the air in a few minutes and even render it mortal, as in the Black Hole at Calcutta. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- That even Phaidor, daughter of the Master of Life and Death, is mortal, I said smiling. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- The irony of circumstances holds no mortal catastrophe in respect. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The bird in the air, and the beast in the field, each plays his part and passes to the great unknown, leaving no record; man himself is mortal, but his work is immortal. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Be the First Born gods or mortals, they are a powerful race, and we are as fast in their clutches as though we were already dead. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be happy--not as angels, but as few are happy amongst mortals. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Ice, I say, doesn't, and it is rather lucky for us mortals, for if it had done so, we would all be dead. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Well, I can only say that if they'd been mortals and had to wear corsets, it would have been better for them. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- He has not been the happiest of mortals since last we met him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Mr. Pickwick, it is quite unnecessary to say, was one of the most modest and delicate-minded of mortals. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The track of the doomed men through the ranks of their fellow mortals was obliterated. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- But in this doubtful stage of Lydgate's introduction he was helped by what we mortals rashly call good fortune. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Hence, ye mortals! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- That is my least concern: I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- They have a peculiar and mysterious power of skimming out of rooms, which other mortals possess not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
手打:西尔维亚