- 1/mɔːrˈtæləti/ · /mɔːˈtæləti/死亡（人終將一死的事實）；死亡率
正式The fact that all living things eventually die — "human mortality" is just the plain fact that people don't live forever. The word is also used as a number in : a "mortality rate" tells you how many people out of a group die, often from a certain disease or in a certain place and time.
示範例句 · Example
Mortality from heart disease varies widely across the world.
逐字來自心臟病的死亡率在全世界各地差異很大。
常見搭配
infant mortality
嬰兒死亡率
the number of babies who die before their first birthday
The infant mortality rate doubled during the 1990s.
mortality rate
死亡率
the number of deaths in a group compared with the size of that group
The mortality rate among untreated patients was much higher.
mortality from something
某原因造成的死亡（率）
deaths caused by a particular illness or cause
Mortality from road accidents has fallen since the law changed.
maternal mortality
孕產婦死亡率
the number of women who die from problems during pregnancy or birth
Maternal mortality remains high in some rural areas.
reduce mortality
降低死亡率
to make fewer people die
Simple hand-washing rules helped reduce mortality in the hospital.
意思相近
death ratefatalitiesdeaths
意思相反
survivalbirth rate
core核心畫面
組成From Latin "mortalis" (subject to death) + "-ity." The piece "mort-" means death, and it shows up in a few related English words.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mortalitynoun/mɔɹˈtælɪti/
- 1
The state or quality of being mortal.
- [H]er minde remembreth her mortalitie, / vvhat ſo is fayreſt ſhall to earth returne.
- Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, / But sad mortality o’er-sways their power, / How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
- 2
archaicThe state or quality of being mortal.
- […] actions of Charity do alleviate, as I may say, and take off from the Mortality of the Sin.
- 3
archaicThe state or quality of being mortal.
- Hold therefore Angelo: / In our remoue, be thou at full, our selfe: / Mortallitie and Mercie in Vienna / Liue in thy tongue, and heart: Old Escalus / Though first in question, is thy secondary. / Take thy Commission.
- 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
The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
- […] the Mortality was so great in the Yard or Alley, that there was no Body left to give Notice to the Buriers or Sextons, that there were any dead Bodies there to be bury’d.
- […] the doctors stood aghast at the swift mortality among the untended sufferers […]
- 5
biologybusinessdemographicsThe number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
- In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.
- Some of the objects of enquiry would be […] what was the comparative mortality among the children of the most distressed part of the community, and those who lived rather more at their ease […]
- 6
Death.
- Why am I mockt with death, and length’nd out / To deathless pain? how gladly would I meet / Mortalitie my sentence, and be Earth / Insensible,
- Learn to bear your Husband’s Death like a reasonable Woman. ’Tis not the fashion, now-a-days so much as to affect Sorrow upon these Occasions. No Woman would ever marry, if she had not the Chance of Mortality for a Release.
- 7
archaicMortals collectively.
- It is not fit Mortalitie should knowe / What his eternall prouidence decreed,
- [S]leepe seiz’d his weary eye, / That salues all care, to all mortality.
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