| 词汇 | example_english_mortal |
| 释义 | Examples of mortalThese 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. Given the many variables inherent to this type of activity, he can at least be forgiven for obeying the same constraints that we, his fellow mortals are also subject to. Kings scarcely recognize themselves as mortals, scarcely understand that which pertains to man, except on the day they are made king or on the day they die. He could be absolutely relaxed when explaining to us lesser mortals the intricacies of that measure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There would appear to be in this country one set of economics for farmers and another for lesser mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the context of the oil industry such sums are not large, although they seem so to mere mortals such as ourselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we can save a few unhappy, abnormal mortals from that fate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then there will be the lesser mortals, those who are unable to get their bosses to fork out for the same amount of insurance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We expected something better, and in the end perhaps we got no more than could be expected of the ordinary mortals that parliamentarians are. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We simple mortals understand only arithmetic and not mathematics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it is in any doubt, it should do what 0rdinary mortals do and use a telephone and check. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Getting it right at any time and achieving perfection is almost an ambition to which mere mortals can never aspire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The clause should not increase the powers of those people over ordinary mortals like ourselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To stronger mortals probably none of this mattered—to me it was depressing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The principle is that we should consider what we, as mere mortals, can do in the best interests of all the communities of this area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not sure whether it is an art or a science, but at least it is beyond the capabilities of ordinary mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We mere mortals may presume to share in the joy in heaven. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The problems of administering something as vast and complex as these are beyond mere mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I turn to something that is more mundane and less glamorous and yet, to mere mortals connected with industry, of greater importance and relevance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Far be it from ordinary mortals to argue with them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Data as such, therefore, are probably unintelligble to mere mortals but are intelligible to the computer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As mere mortals we have no right to behave like this, whatever the reasons or the arguments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I must say that we humbler mortals entirely agree with that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They seem to live in a totally different world from that of ordinary mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that mere mortals should be allowed to speak from time to time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no way in which mere mortals can understand the words in such orders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To my mind, this is a serious blow for the credibility of the new currency and for its acceptance by ordinary mortals. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I became convinced by their arguments, having always respected lawyers and thought of them as people of above the ordinary aspirations of us ordinary mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are public works loans commissioners possessed of a financial expertise that is denied to mere mortals, or are they simply well-meaning laymen? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that the majority of accidents are caused by tiredness and mental aberration and a general dislike of one's fellow mortals on the roads. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In my view, this huge, unwieldy and highly centralised industry is far too big to be run by a board of ordinary mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our nurses daily face duties that we mere mortals would run a mile to avoid. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one wishes to see a commission that is intolerant of lesser mortals and that believes that its values and judgment are beyond serious challenge. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He does not think he is superior, above his ordinary fellow mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Mere mortals cross off all the ones that we know we cannot answer and hope that there are four left. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I often wonder therefore what damage whisky does to us poor mortals as it passes through our kidneys. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am generalising, but the police and other sections of our society tend to see black people as lesser mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because of the nature of their occupation, they cannot chatter to friends and acquaintances, as most ordinary mortals can, about difficulties at work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We humble mortals merely know the sort of things we expect our laws to do. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have given us ordinary mortals in the background just a glimpse into the corridors of power. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have quite a different taste in language and different standards from ordinary mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it really so secret that we are not to be told, we ordinary mortals, what it is, what it is all about? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We ordinary mortals know exactly what he meant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whether mere mortals can perform as perfectly as the law requires remains to be seen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, some of us ordinary mortals are rash enough to rush in where lawyers fear to plead. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If so, how will ordinary mortals be able to make up their minds about this? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that law-abiding mortals who were caught up in all that trouble consider it funny. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are also those mortals who look to a changed currency, a managed currency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The idea is surely as good a one as ever came to heavy-laden mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One must trust the judiciary, bearing in mind that all these institutions are staffed by mortals and therefore will make mistakes, as we do. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are interested not only in the information that will be disclosed to experts but in the idea of a brochure that will be more comprehensible to ordinary mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he appreciate that for some of us lesser mortals it is difficult to comment on a document that we, as opposed to others, have not seen? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are a concept conjured up by some mortals—indeed, even politicians—to convey a general trend of thought as to what they would like to do in certain circumstances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All institutions are run by mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The seamen look over the side with that remote, sardonic look which they reserve for all miserable mortals who are not sailing in their own particular ship. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All this comes from a system of taxation which has been built up, brick by brick and boulder by boulder, to make it absolutely impenetrable to ordinary mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I regret that some people seem to think that ancillary staff are lesser mortals than academic staff or, in the hospitals, the surgeons, doctors and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was very bald, and as he walked round the three hairs growing on top of his head waved in the cross-ventilation which never reached us humbler mortals down below. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are all of us fallible mortals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Mortals, as we know, cannot command success. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secret diplomacy was a closed subject which ordinary mortals were not supposed to be intelligent enough to understand, but which was sacred from any form of interference. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To such lesser mortals they may well appear to put on them a powerful need to speak and provide an answer to every question and every insinuation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He could have said, of course, ' sense inaudible to mortal ears', for all such serial metaphors are similarly impossible to hear. Here, the major term is "die", the minor term is "men", and the middle term is "mortals". From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She also runs a smaller network among mortals and in evil and neutral-aligned planes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. My eerie shades bubble with an irrepressible sense of humour, ready to laugh with (never "at") those earth-bound mortals whose fears they once shared. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Facts may be determined by judges, but may also be determined by lesser mortals in juries. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Mortals are those who are not simply together but must be brought together, in a feeling of having-to-be. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The mist somehow causes her to appear as a poodle to mortals. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Unfortunately, they also know how to flaunt it, never giving mere mortals the time of the day. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Likewise, his arguments against the existence of nonconsequentialist constraints on preventing mortal loss will not succeed. The threat-simulation mechanisms operating in presentday humans who are living in safe environments rarely find salient memory traces corresponding to ancestral or mortal threats. Mortals committing a good deed according to traditional values may be promoted after their death. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Gilgamesh fails two tests and does not become immortal, realising instead that mortals attain immortality through lasting works of civilization and culture. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. To humanize them, to tame their instincts and teach them how to live among mortals. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Tabitha then began introducing him as her great-nephew as he could now meet mortals without turning back into an inanimate doll. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Chaos is a malevolent force that twists the bodies and minds of mortals exposed to it. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The only solution, she thinks, is to transform the mortals into harlequinade characters. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He is the character who lives to discharge your mortal lack. Much of the time, these things only happen to mortals who gain immortality. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, when he is living backwards, he is not visible to mortals. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rather, it is usually portrayed as a paradisal location populated by deities, which is occasionally visited by some adventurous mortals. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Also, the friendly meetings which had characterized their relationship with mortals grew increasingly rare. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Ace is very protective of his friends and mankind, who he refers to as mortals. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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. His blood, normally red, is imaged as gold, more precious than an ordinary mortal's because he is the king, even though dead. The latter is extremely familiar to ordinary mortals, who come into contact with it, exploit it or become its victims, on an everyday basis. In ancient times, leaders of communities had the status of heroes and were elevated above the ordinary, being regarded as more than mere mortals. We may slip in that fatal perspective of recognizing culture as our construct, arbitrary, conventional, made by mortals. Here we have to distinguish between the police and ordinary mortals. Maybe this is true also, to some extent, of mortals with interesting births. The mortals that experience the extraordinary bitter sting of love, are removed from civilization through death or loss of human form. The rising up of ordinary mortals with extraordinary passions allows the cycle of love to carry on for eternity. Only some of those on the receiving end were criminally dishonest ; others were ordinary mortals faced with tempting bargains or gifts. Here, as in most other respects, the world of the spirits duplicates that of the mortals. After one and a half turns, he approached the pavilion structure - to occupy his seat - but the mortals had already taken his place. At the four corners of her tapestry are set miniature scenes of presumptuous mortals. Further, this loving relationship has been extended to mere mortals. Only they can learn about those states of mind ; for ordinary mortals, knowledge about those states of mind is impossible. 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. |
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