单词辨析 | mortality,morality

本次我们来辨别2个单词,它们分别是:

  • mortality
  • morality

他们虽然没有完全相同的翻译,但是

mortality和morality的字形上相似度大约有68.18%,修改1个字母后mortality能变成morality。

第1个单词:mortality

美音:/mɔːrˈtæləti/,英音:/mɔːˈtæləti/
含义:n. 死亡人数,死亡率;必死性,终有一死;死亡
网络含义:死亡率

英文短含义: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./

对孩子来说,最困难的事情之一就是经历心爱的宠物的死亡;这是一个关于死亡的艰难教训。死亡是死亡的品质,或死亡的现实。

英文长含义:It’s not easy for most people to come to terms with their own mortality, or the fact that they really will die someday. Mortality can refer to an individual or to a larger group of people, particularly when you’re talking about the total number of deaths within a population, using the phrase mortality rate. The words mortality and mortal come from the Latin root mortis, or “death.”

大多数人都不容易接受自己的死亡,或者他们真的有一天会死的事实。死亡率可以指一个人或一大群人,特别是当您使用死亡率一词来谈论人口中的总死亡人数时。死亡和凡人这两个词来自拉丁词根mortis,或“死亡”。

例句1:Go up 1 percent to a 96 percent death rate and the figure jumps to 12.5 million—creating more than two million people arithmetically from a tiny increase in mortality rates.
死亡率上升 1% 至 96%,这个数字跃升至 1250 万——从算术上来说,死亡率的微小增加创造了超过 200 万人。
– from 1491

例句2:Graunt compiled statistics for the number born and dying each year, and the causes of death, from the annual bills of mortality that were published in London.
格朗特从伦敦公布的年度死亡率账单中收集了每年出生和死亡人数以及死亡原因的统计数据。
– from The Invention of Science

例句3:Even the titles of their plays were strangely seductive, trapdoors to something beautiful and wicked that trickled beneath the surface of mortality: The Malcontent.
就连他们的剧名也出奇地诱人,是通往死亡表面之下的美丽而邪恶的活板门:不满者。
– from The Secret History

第2个单词:morality

美音:/məˈræləti/,英音:/məˈræləti/
含义:n. 道德,品行;正当性
网络含义:德性

英文短含义:Morality is a concern with what’s right or wrong. Your sense of morality prevents you from cheating on your school exams, on your taxes, or on your spouse./

道德是对什么是对或错的关注。你的道德意识可以防止你在学校考试、税收或配偶上作弊。

英文长含义:You’ll notice the word moral is in morality. And you might remember reading fairy tales that ended with the phrase, “The moral of the story is…” That’s because stories for children are often intended to instruct kids as to what the good or right decision is in a situation. For example, Cinderella teaches kids that if their foot fits the glass slipper, they can end up marrying a prince. How’s that for morality?

你会注意到道德这个词在道德中。您可能还记得读过以“故事的寓意是……”这句话结尾的童话故事,这是因为儿童故事通常旨在指导孩子在某种情况下做出正确或正确的决定。例如,灰姑娘教孩子们,如果他们的脚适合玻璃拖鞋,他们最终可以嫁给王子。道德怎么样?

例句1:“And they are—when they attempt to masquerade as men. They aren’t capable of right thinking, of human morality. They are meant to be controlled.”
“而且他们是——当他们试图伪装成男人的时候。他们没有正确的思考能力,没有人类道德的能力。他们注定要被控制。”
– from Six of Crows

例句2:Sedulously, he had once avoided the clusters of boys who haunted the locker rooms with their salient, knowledgeable talk in which his finely honed sense of morality denied him participation.
他曾经刻意地避开了那些在更衣室里出没的男孩们,他们用他们精辟的、知识渊博的谈话来谈论这些谈话,而他精心磨练的道德意识却拒绝他参与。
– from The Great Santini

例句3:And Verdi understood that opera was at its most powerful when attempting to impart universal truths through emotionally engaging morality fables.
威尔第明白,歌剧在试图通过引人入胜的道德寓言来传达普遍真理时最强大。
– from The Story of Music


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