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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- death [dεθ]
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- death [dεθ] [deθ]
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1.
noun
死，死亡
- This is a matter of life and death.
- 这是性命攸关的问题。
- Life after death is nothingness.
- 死亡后生命归于虚无。
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2.
noun
[Death]死神
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3.
noun
死亡状态
- It's going to be very hard for him to get over the death of his mother.
- 要他从母亲去世的阴影中走出来很难。
- 4. noun 毁灭，灭亡
- 5. noun 死因，致死的原因
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6.
noun
谋杀，凶杀；屠杀
- 7. noun [antiquated] 瘟疫，恶性流行病（尤指鼠疫）
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1.
noun
死，死亡
Collins English-English Dictionary
- death [dεθ]
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1.
n
the permanent end of all functions of life in an organism or some of its cellular components
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2.
n
an instance of this
- his death ended an era
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3.
n
a murder or killing
- he had five deaths on his conscience
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4.
n
termination or destruction
- the death of colonialism
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5.
n
a state of affairs or an experience considered as terrible as death
- your constant nagging will be the death of me
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6.
n
a cause or source of death
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7.
n
[usually capital]
a personification of death, usually a skeleton or an old man holding a scythe
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8.
n
[Etymology]
Old English d
e ath; related to Old High German to d death, Gothic dauthus
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1.
n
the permanent end of all functions of life in an organism or some of its cellular components
Examples
- These offences carry a mandatory death penalty, which means that trial judges have no option but to impose a death sentence on those who are convicted.
- 这些犯罪行为将构成强制死刑，这就是说庭审法官没有其他选择，直接宣判犯罪分子死刑。
- His death affected us deeply.
- 他的死使我们深为悲恸。 → affect
- to choose death before dishonor
- 宁死不屈 → before
- to cheat death
- 逃脱死亡 → cheat
- The house came to him on the death of his father.
- 他父亲死后这所房子由他继承。 → come
- the death of our hopes
- 我们的希望的破灭 → death
- Cancer was his death.
- 癌症是他的死因。 → death
- the Black Death
- 黑死病，鼠疫 → death
- a dry death
- 不流血的死亡 → dry
- even unto death
- 即使到死 → even
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