| 单词 | mortal |
| 释义 | mortal (once / 82 pages) adjn You are a mortal because you are mortal. This means that you are an individual destined to die because you are susceptible to death. The word mortal has one of the most ancient genealogies of any word in English or any other language. It is related to English words like "murder" and "mortuary," and to the French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian words for "death." Something that can kill you can also be described as mortal. If you're in mortal danger, you're in a deadly situation. Action heroes often think they are dealing their enemy a mortal blow, but sometimes the enemy manages to come back to life. People are called mortals because at some point, they die. WORD FAMILYmortal: immortal, mortality, mortally, mortals, postmortal+/immortal: immortalise, immortality, immortalize, immortally, immortals/immortalise: immortalised, immortalises, immortalising/immortality: immortalities/immortalize: immortalized, immortalizes, immortalizing/mortality: mortalities USAGE EXAMPLESFor every hit like “Mortal Combat” or “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” there are a slew of duds such as “Warcraft” and “Prince of Persia.” Time(Jan 01, 2017) For every hit like "Mortal Combat" or "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," there are a slew of duds such as "Warcraft" and "Prince of Persia." Reuters(Jan 01, 2017) The majority of the issues that shuffled off their mortal coil were some combination of uninspired, unloved, unlucky and unfortunate, and deserved their fate. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1adj subject to death mortal beings Syn|Ant finite bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent earthlyof or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven earthbornof earthly origin (as mortals are) immortal not subject to death infinitehaving no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude heavenlyof or belonging to heaven or god amaranthine, unfadingof an imaginary flower that never fades deathless, undyingnever dying deificcharacterized by divine or godlike nature 2adj unrelenting and deadly mortal enemy Syn merciless, unmerciful having or showing no mercy 3adj causing or capable of causing death mortal combat a mortal illness Syn deadly, deathly fatal bringing death 4adj involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death Syn deadly unpardonable not admitting of pardon 5n a human being Syn|Hyper individual, person, somebody, someone, soul being, organism a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently causal agency, causal agent, causeany entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results |
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