词汇：mortality

n. 死亡数，死亡率；必死性，必死的命运

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When the third day passed and Gus wasn’t back, Call began to be uneasy. Augustus had survived so much that Call didn’t give his safety much thought. Even men accustomed all their lives to sudden death didn’t expect it to happen to Gus McCrae. The rest of them might fall by the wayside, their mortality taking gentle or cruel forms, but Gus would just go on talking.>>完整场景

When she got through with her story, he explained that he had killed a dentist in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and was a wanted man, but that he had hopes of eluding the law, and if he did, he would certainly try to see that she got to San Francisco, where she belonged. The way he said it made a big impression on Lorie. A sad tone came into his voice from time to time, as if it pained him to have to remember that mortality could prevent him from doing her such a favor. He sounded like he expected to die, and probably soon. It wasn’t a whine, either—just a low note off his tongue and a look in his eye; it didn’t interrupt for a minute his ability to enjoy the immediate pleasures of life.>>完整场景

MUSHTAQ (CONT’D) If the men stay in this room - and this here is the target area - we would expect a one hundred per cent mortality rate in the room, an eighty-five to ninety-five per cent mortality rate within this area and anything outside the building - this area here in the street - a sixty-five to seventy-five per cent rate. That is just the Hellfire. If we factor in the explosives in the vests... We are looking at even more extensive damage - way out to this area here - but I can’t accurately estimate that payload.>>完整场景

But from this instant there's nothing serious in mortality.>>完整场景