MORTAL

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Traducere în limba română

mortal I. adjectiv

1. muritor; supus morţii;

unknown to mortal men neştiut de nimeni, îndeobşte necunoscut.

2. mortal, ucigător, funest, fatal, de moarte;

mortal blow lovitură mortală;

mortal sin păcat de moarte;

mortal enemy duşman de moarte;

mortal hatred ură de moarte.

3. (fam.) nesfârşit, interminabil;

two mortal hours două ore fără sfârşit / interminabile.

◊ (fam.) any mortal thing orice, nu interesează ce.

mortal II. substantiv

plural the mortals muritorii.

mortal III. adverb

(rar) mortal, de moarte.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

That is my least concern; I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It never seemed to me that she walked, or, at least, walked after the ordinary manner of mortals.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

If he go through a doorway, he must open the door like a mortal.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

They beheld me with all the marks and circumstances of wonder; neither indeed was I much in their debt, having never till then seen a race of mortals so singular in their shapes, habits, and countenances.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Yes—just one of your tricks: not to send for a carriage, and come clattering over street and road like a common mortal, but to steal into the vicinage of your home along with twilight, just as if you were a dream or a shade.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

One night when Beth looked among the books upon her table, to find something to make her forget the mortal weariness that was almost as hard to bear as pain, as she turned the leaves of her old favorite, Pilgrims's Progress, she found a little paper, scribbled over in Jo's hand.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

“I knew, from the first moment when I saw her with that poor dear blessed baby of a mother of yours, that she was the most ridiculous of mortals. But there are good points in Barkis!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"Because," he answered solemnly, "he can live for centuries, and you are but mortal woman. Time is now to be dreaded—since once he put that mark upon your throat."

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

She is a sweet, good soul, and the next day, when she saw I was troubled, she opened up the subject again, and after saying that she could never mention what my poor dear raved about, added: 'I can tell you this much, my dear: that it was not about anything which he has done wrong himself; and you, as his wife to be, have no cause to be concerned. He has not forgotten you or what he owes to you. His fear was of great and terrible things, which no mortal can treat of.'

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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