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(oflivingthings,especiallypeople)unabletocontinuelivingforever; having todie: （尤指人）终有一死的For all men are mortal.人终有一死。 a mortalinjury/illness致命伤／致命的疾病 menengagedin mortalcombat(=fightinguntil one of themdies)进行殊死争斗的人 figurativeNewcomputingtechnologydealta mortalblowto theprintingcompanies.新的计算机技术给传统的印刷公司以致命的打击。 mortal dread/fear/terror extremeanxietyabout orfearof someone or something: 非常担心；极度恐惧Welivein mortaldreadoffurtherattacks.我们生活在极度恐惧中，担心会再受到袭击。 mortal enemy, danger, threat, etc. a veryseriousanddangerousenemy,danger,threat, etc. 死敌／致命的危险／严重的威胁SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesDeath and dying - be as dead as a doornailidiom
- bereave
- bite
- bleed out
- buy the farmidiom
- cadaveric
- death toll
- depart this lifeidiom
- die off
- fatality
- ghost
- morbid
- necrophiliac
- perch
- predecease
- push
- remains
- shuffle off this mortal coilidiom
- starvation
- watery
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Killing Fear & phobias Dangers and threats Serious and severe anordinaryperson,ratherthan agodor aspecial,important, orpowerfulperson: 凡人，普通人Thepoliceofficersguardingthedoorletin thecelebrities, but theypreventeduslesser/meremortals from going inside.把守大门的警官让名人们进去，但不让我们这些普通人入内。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesOrdinary people - banausic
- community
- Essex girl
- everyman
- grassroots
- John Doe
- John Q. Public
- man/woman of the peopleidiom
- mass
- mass market
- omnibus
- popular
- popularly
- prole
- public
- rabble
- ruck
- the common manidiom
- the man/woman in the streetidiom
- the man/woman on the Clapham omnibusidiom
See more results » mortal| American Dictionary(oflivingthings,esp.people)unabletocontinuelivingforever; having todie: Humans are mortal and we alleventuallydie. As theshipbegantosink, theyrealizedthey were in mortaldanger(= they mightdie). ahuman, or anordinaryperson: Examplesofmortalmortal Even in the era of the word processor, authorial output of this quantity and quality is something to which we lesser mortals can only aspire.From theCambridge English Corpus His blood, normally red, is imaged as gold, more precious than an ordinary mortal's because he is the king, even though dead.From theCambridge English Corpus The latter is extremely familiar to ordinary mortals, who come into contact with it, exploit it or become its victims, on an everyday basis.From theCambridge English Corpus In ancient times, leaders of communities had the status of heroes and were elevated above the ordinary, being regarded as more than mere mortals.From theCambridge English Corpus We may slip in that fatal perspective of recognizing culture as our construct, arbitrary, conventional, made by mortals.From theCambridge English Corpus Here we have to distinguish between the police and ordinary mortals.From theCambridge English Corpus Maybe this is true also, to some extent, of mortals with interesting births.From theCambridge English Corpus The mortals that experience the extraordinary bitter sting of love, are removed from civilization through death or loss of human form.From theCambridge English Corpus The rising up of ordinary mortals with extraordinary passions allows the cycle of love to carry on for eternity.From theCambridge English Corpus Only some of those on the receiving end were criminally dishonest ; others were ordinary mortals faced with tempting bargains or gifts.From theCambridge English Corpus Here, as in most other respects, the world of the spirits duplicates that of the mortals.From theCambridge English Corpus After one and a half turns, he approached the pavilion structure - to occupy his seat - but the mortals had already taken his place.From theCambridge English Corpus At the four corners of her tapestry are set miniature scenes of presumptuous mortals.From theCambridge English Corpus Further, this loving relationship has been extended to mere mortals.From theCambridge English Corpus Only they can learn about those states of mind ; for ordinary mortals, knowledge about those states of mind is impossible.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |