mortality
mortality 英 [mɔ:ˈtæləti] 美 [mɔrˈtæləti]
n. 死亡
名词复数:mortalities
- One of the most difficult things for a child is experiencing the death of a beloved pet; it's a hard lesson in mortality. Mortality is the quality of being mortal, or the reality of death.
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- n. 死亡
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1. After her mother's death, she became acutely aware of her own mortality.
她母亲去世后，她开始强烈意识到自己的生命是有限的。
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2. Mortality from lung cancer is still increasing.
死于肺癌的人数仍在上升。
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3. hospital mortalities
医院里的死亡数字
- mortality (n.) mid-14c., "condition of being mortal," from Old French mortalite "massacre, slaughter; fatal illness; poverty; destruction" (12c.), from Latin mortalitem (nominative mortalitas) "state of being mortal; subjection to death," from mortalis "subject to death, mortal," from PIE root *mer- "to rub away, harm" (also "to die" and forming words referring to death and to beings subject to death). Meaning "widespread death" is from c. 1400; meaning "number of deaths from some cause or in a given period" is from 1640s.
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