mortality

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n. 必死的命运, 死亡数目, 死亡率 [医] 必死性, 死亡率

发音

US /mɔɹˈtælɪti/

词形变化

mortalities 复数 mortalities

别名

mortalitie

教材释义与例句

名词

死亡数，死亡率；必死性，必死的命运

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The state or quality of being mortal.

    The state of being susceptible to death.

    必死

    可数 不可数

    1714, Alexander Pope, letter to John Gay in Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, London, 1735, Volume 2, p. 208, I have been perpetually troubled with sickness of late, which has made me so melancholy that the Immortality of the Soul has been my constant Speculation, as the Mortality of my Body my constant Plague.

  2. 2.

    The state or quality of being mortal.

    The quality of being punishable by death.

    古体 可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    The state or quality of being mortal.

    The quality of causing death.

    古体 可数 不可数

    1685, Thomas Willis, Tract of Fevers, Chapter 15, in The London Practice of Physick, London: Thomas Basset and William Crooke, p. 626, […] the Fevers of Women in Child-bed; to wit, both the Lacteal, and that called Putrid, which, by reason of its Mortality, deserves to be call’d Malignant.

  4. 4.

    The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.

    Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.

    The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

    死亡率

    可数 不可数 生物 商务 金融
  6. 6.

    Death.

    可数 比喻 不可数
  7. 7.

    Mortals collectively.

    古体 可数 比喻 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

death rate fatality rate

反义词 1

immortality

上位词 3

rate impermanence impermanency

下位词 2

infant mortality infant mortality rate

相关短语

mortality table 死亡表 [经] 死亡统计表 mortality tables infant mortality rate [医] 婴儿死亡率 infant mortality rates bill of mortality [法] 死亡统计表 infant mortality 婴儿死亡率 bills of mortality attritional mortality catastrophic mortality

词源

From Old French mortalite, from Latin mortālitās, from mortālis (“relating to death”), from mors (“death”); equivalent to mortal + -ity.

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