英语释义

1. a permanent cessation of all vital (see vital sense 2a) functions the end of life
The cause of death has not been determined. managed to escape death prisoners were put to death death threats — compare brain death

2. an instance of dying
a disease causing many deaths lived there until her death

3. the cause or occasion of loss of life
drinking was the death of him

4. a cause of ruin
the slander that was death to my character
— Wilkie Collins The drought was death to the farm.

5. the destroyer of life represented usually as a skeleton with a scythe
when death comes to take me away

6. the state of being no longer alive the state of being dead

7. the passing or destruction of something inanimate
the death of vaudeville

8. extinction
the death of the dinosaurs

9. civil death

10. slaughter
death and destruction

11. the lie of life in matter that which is unreal and untrue

12. close to death critically ill

13. beyond endurance excessively
bored to death scared to death of spiders I am sick to death of hearing your excuses. Most high rollers prefer Atlantic City and Las Vegas, where they are comped to death and have more diversions.
— William G. Flanagan et al.

14. the end of life the time when someone or something dies

15. the ending of a particular person's life

16. the permanent end of something that is not alive the ruin or destruction of something

17. the end or ending of life

18. the cause of loss of life
Drinking will be the death of him.

19. the state of being dead
He was more famous in death than in life.

20. ruin entry 2 sense 1, extinction
DVDs meant the death of videotape.

21. very entry 1 sense 1, extremely
We were scared to death.

22. the irreversible cessation of all vital functions especially as indicated by permanent stoppage of the heart, respiration, and brain activity the end of life — see brain death

23. the state of being dead
in death as in life

24. a permanent cessation of all vital bodily functions the end of life — see also brain death, civil death Note: Death is usually defined by statute and for purposes of criminal homicide has been held to include brain death.

英汉例句

• perhaps best of all was the straightfaced judgment of an inquiry into foxhunting that being hunted to death by hounds 「seriously compromises the welfare of the fox」.

  也许这之中最出彩的就是他一脸严肃的评判一场关于猎狐的质询，认为被猎狗追猎至死「严重损害了狐貍的福利」。

• a novel can span birth to death and can show you how the person behaves in situations that you could never otherwise observe.

  一本小说，人物从生到死，会展示给你这个人是如何在一些场合中表现的，这些场合你可能此前从未注意过。

• it is possible for a moose to starve to death with its stomach full.

  驼鹿胃里装着满满的食物却因饑饿而死是完全可能的。

• appropriately enough, he was stabbed to death in a traffic jam in paris when his carriage gets blocked in the center of paris, and this mad monk sticks a big knife into him.

  他是在巴黎拥挤的街道上被刀捅死的,这对他的一生真是绝妙的讽刺,当时他的马车被堵在巴黎市中心,有个疯狂的修士用一把大匕首捅死了他

• her neighbors heard her screams as shewas being stabbed to death by a stranger outside her apartment. allegedly, they did nothing to help.

  热内瓦斯在自己公寓外被一名陌生人持刀刺死，当时她的邻居听到了尖叫声，但却没有出来救助。

• a person could be stretched across the face of a wheel and bludgeoned to death or have an iron-rimmed wheel pounded across the person’s bones with a hammer.

  一个人可能会被一个轮子的表面所拉伸穿过并棒击至死或者一个铁边的轮子用榔头来捣碎一个人的骨头。

• have we at least found something interesting,necessary, unique to death when we say,nobody can die my death for me.

  我们是否至少找到一些有趣，必要，独特的东西，当我们说「没有人能代替我死亡。

• from birth to death every soviet citizen has his own “book of health」 where all diseases are registered.

  从出生到死亡，每一个苏维埃公民都有属于自己的「健康手册」，上面记录了所有的疾病。

• the guerrillas would fight to death before they surrendered.

  游击队员宁愿战斗到死，也不愿投降。

• in most fires many people got killed not because they were burned to death but because they were suffocated.

  发生火灾时，在大多数情况下，许多人并非死于大火，而是死于窒息。

• sorrow is basically due to death of a loved one, failure and despair. but these things are temporary and pass away.

  悲伤基本都来自于一个爱人的去世、失败还有绝望,但是这样的事情都是暂时的,总会过去的。

相似词

decease死亡

demise遗赠；禅让

dissolution分解，溶解；（议会等的）解散；（契约等的）解除；死亡

doom(Doom)人名；(泰)伦

end结束；目标；尽头；末端；死亡

exit退出；离去

expiration呼气；终结；届期

expiry满期，到期；终结；呼气；死亡

fate命运

gravead （乐）缓慢地，庄严地

passage通过通道

passing暂时的；经过的，过往的；及格的；（时间）流逝的；快速的；（相似性）微小的

quietus解除；偿清；生命的终止；寂灭

sleep(Sleep)人名；(英)斯利普

相反词

birth出生；血统，出身；起源

nativity耶稣的诞生；耶稣诞生图；圣诞剧；圣诞节；（人诞生时的）天宫图；出生