单词详解 | mortality

mortality
音标
美音:/mɔːrˈtæləti/,英音:/mɔːˈtæləti/

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
Harris has played a leading role on abortion since the Dobbs decision, which was released while she was on a flight to Illinois for an event on maternal mortality.
自从多布斯决定发布以来,哈里斯在堕胎问题上发挥了主导作用,多布斯决定是在她飞往伊利诺伊州参加孕产妇死亡率活动的航班上发布的。
Washington Times

Time is moving forward for everyone but him; and he’s plagued by thoughts of his own mortality.
对每个人来说,时间都在前进,除了他;他被自己的死亡的想法所困扰。
BBC

Most of the states with severe abortion restrictions are also states that have a high maternal mortality rate and higher rates of stillbirth and miscarriage.
大多数严格堕胎限制的州也是孕产妇死亡率高、死产率和流产率较高的州。
Washington Times

基本释意
noun
the quality or state of being mortal
n. 死亡人数,死亡率;必死性,终有一死;死亡

同义词
death rate,deathrate,fatality rate,mortality rate

短释义
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.”
对于孩子来说,最困难的事情之一就是经历心爱宠物的死亡;这是死亡的惨痛教训。必死性是指必死的品质,或死亡的现实。

长释义
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.”
对于大多数人来说,接受自己的死亡或他们有一天真的会死的事实并不容易。死亡率可以指个人或更大的群体,特别是当您使用死亡率一词谈论人口中的死亡总数时。死亡和凡人这两个词源自拉丁语词根 mortis,即“死亡”。

文学例句
The vast mortality, involving something over 50 million of us each year, takes place in relative secrecy.
每年涉及超过 5000 万人的巨大死亡是在相对保密的情况下发生的。
The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas

Contemplating mortality, thinkers in many cultures have drawn solace from the prospect of life after death.
考虑到死亡,许多文化的思想家都从死后生命的前景中获得安慰。
1491 by Charles C. Mann

Aware of his mortality, he turned over again, entangled in the bedclothes.
意识到自己必死无疑,他再次翻身,被床单缠住。
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

词源
mortality (n.)mid-14c., mortalite, “condition of being subject to death or the necessity of dying,” from Old French mortalite “massacre, slaughter; fatal illness; poverty; destruction” (12c.) and directly 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).The meaning “widespread death, numerousness of deaths; plague” is from c. 1400; the sense of “number of deaths from some cause or in a given period” is from 1640s, later especially in proportion to population.Related entries & more

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
死亡率 (n.)mid-14c., mortalite,“死亡的条件或死亡的必要性”,源自古法语 mortalite“屠杀、屠杀、致命疾病、贫困、破坏”(12c.) 并直接源自拉丁语mortalitem(主格 mortalitas)“凡人的状态;服从死亡”,源自 mortalis“服从死亡,凡人”,源自 PIE 词根 *mer-“擦去,伤害”(也“死”并构成指代“广泛的死亡,大量的死亡;瘟疫”的意思来自c. 1400; “因某种原因或在特定时期内死亡的人数”的含义是从 ​​1640 年代开始的,后来特别是与人口的比例相关。相关条目及更多


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