mortal是什么意思_mortal怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

mortal: mortal: [14] Mortal goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *mor-, *mr- ‘die’ (source also of English murder). From it were descended the Latin words mortuus ‘dead’ (source of English mortuary [14] and the 19th-century American coinage mortician) and mors ‘death’. The adjectival derivative of mors was mortālis, which reached English via Old French mortal, mortel. Also based on mors was the late Latin verb mortificāre ‘kill’, hence metaphorically ‘subdue desires’, from which English gets mortify [14].
=> mortgage, mortify, mortuary, murder
mortal (adj.): mid-14c., "deadly," also "doomed to die," from Old French mortel "destined to die; deserving of death," from Latin mortalis "subject to death, mortal, of a mortal, human," from mors (genitive mortis) "death," from PIE base *mer- "to die," with derivatives referring to death and human beings" (cognates: Sanskrit mrtih "death," martah "mortal man;" Avestan miryeite "dies," Old Persian martiya- "man;" Armenian meranim "die;" Latin mori "to die;" Lithuanian mirtis "mortal man;" Greek brotos "mortal" (hence ambrotos "immortal"); Old Church Slavonic mrutvu "dead;" Old Irish marb, Welsh marw "died;" Old English morþ "murder"). The most widespread Indo-European root for "to die," forming the common word for it except in Greek and Germanic. Watkins says it is "possibly" the same as PIE *mer- "rub, pound, wear away" (see morbid).
mortal (n.): "mortal thing or substance," 1520s, from mortal (adj.). Latin mortalis also was used as a noun, "a man, mortal, human being."

词态变化

复数 mortals;

权威造句

1. When self-esteem is high, we lose our mortal fear of jealousy.: 自信心很强时，我们不再对妒忌感到极度惧怕。

2. Adultery is a mortal sin.: 通奸是不可饶恕的罪孽。

3. We are all mortal.: 我们都总有一死。

4. He received a mortal wound soon after the battle began.: 战争开始后不久,他就受到了致命的重伤.

5. We were in mortal terror of being found out.: 我们非常害怕被发现.

近反义词

adj.

deadly

fatal

相似短语

mortal reflex 【医】致死反射

mortal enemy phr. 死敌

mortal sin n. 〈宗〉不可饶恕的大罪

mortal disease 【法】致命疾病

mortal wound 【法】致命伤

in a mortal hurry 极其匆忙

in a mortal funk 惊恐万状,吓得要命

shuffle off this mortal coil v.摆脱尘世烦恼

the Heavenly Maid and the Mortal 天仙配

cut sb"s mortal thread 割断某人的命脉,置某人于死地,杀死某人

单词分析

这些形容词均表示“致命的”之意。
deadly指能致命或实际已致命的事物，也可指企图致死他人的人。
fatal正式用词，强调死亡的不可避免性，多用于指伤或疾病等。
mortal语气强，指导致死亡的直接原因。
lethal指由于某物本身具有致命的性能。

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