death

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基本釋義

n.
死(亡); 終結,破滅; 死神

詞性變化

實用例句

Police are trying to establish the cause of death .

警方在設法確定死因。

牛津詞典

Do you believe in life after death ?

你相信來世嗎?

牛津詞典

a death camp (= a place where prisoners are killed, usually in a war)

死亡集中營(常指戰(zhàn)爭中殺害俘虜?shù)牡胤剑?/p>

牛津詞典

He was sentenced to death (= to be executed ) .

他被判處死刑。

牛津詞典

a sudden/violent/peaceful, etc. death

猝死、橫死、安詳?shù)乃赖?/p>

牛津詞典

the anniversary of his wife's death

他妻子的忌日

牛津詞典

an increase in deaths from cancer

癌癥死亡人數(shù)的增加

牛津詞典

He died a slow and painful death.

他緩慢而痛苦地死去。

牛津詞典

Two children were burnt to death in the fire (= they died as a result of the fire) .

兩個孩子被大火燒死。

牛津詞典

He's drinking himself to death (= so that it will kill him) .

他這樣喝酒非醉死不可。

牛津詞典

He scares teams to death with his pace and power...

他的速度之快、力量之大讓其他隊膽戰(zhàn)不已。

Whereas 10 years ago I would have worried myself to death about it, now I accept it is part of the game...

10 年前我會為此擔心得要命,但現(xiàn)在我接受了它是游戲的一部分。

They worked themselves to death but never lost their humour.

他們累死累活地干活,但卻從沒有丟掉幽默感。

He was stabbed to death.

他被刀刺中身亡。

...relief missions to try to keep the country's population from starving to death...

努力確保該國人民不被餓死的救援任務

He now faces a fight to the death to reach the quarter-finals.

他現(xiàn)在面臨一場殺入四分之一決賽的殊死決戰(zhàn)。

Well, never mind, John, it's not a matter of life and death...

好了,約翰,別太在意了。這又不是什么生死攸關的大事。

We're dealing with a life-and-death situation here...

我們正面臨一個生死關頭。

Those put to death by firing squad included three generals.

行刑隊處決的那些人里有 3 名將軍。

...the thirtieth anniversary of her death...

她逝世 30 周年的紀念日

They made sure that he died a horrible death...

他們讓他死得很慘。

He would rather have a decent death which served some purpose than a meaningless death.

他寧愿死得其所,也不想無謂地死去。

It meant the death of everything he had ever been or ever hoped to be.

這意味著他過去的一切存在或曾經希望的存在均已終結。

...the death of pop music.

流行音樂的死亡

He told his boss a tale about his mother being at death's door...

他向老板謊稱自己的母親病危。

My dad was the same. He could be at death's door but wouldn't say a word.

我爸爸也一樣。他就算已經病得快不行了也還是會一聲不吭。

He said they did not want war—but if attacked they would fight to the death...

他說他們不希望有戰(zhàn)爭——但一旦遭到攻擊,定會戰(zhàn)斗到底。

She'd have fought to the death for that child.

她會為了那個孩子抗爭到底。

...an eleven-hour fight to the death between a baboon and leopard...

一只狒狒和一頭美洲豹之間長達 11小時的殊死搏斗

1.5 million people are in immediate danger of death from starvation.

150 萬人正面臨著被餓死的急迫危險。

真題例句

They break routines, because autopilot is death.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a measured haste to get big new things done while there is still time.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

It's the stage in the middle of the journey when people feel youth vanishing, their prospects narrowing and death approaching.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

That's especially worrying, she says, given that anorexia results in more deaths than does any other mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.

出自-2015年12月聽力原文

Americans have always argued about the death penalty.

出自-2015年12月聽力原文

The team conducted a computer-based analysis to determine the impact a 3-g-per-day reduction in salt intake on rates of heart disease and death.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

There may be some matters of life and death or highest principle, which might justify such a risk, but there aren't many things that fall in this category.

出自-2011年12月閱讀原文

There seems to be more of a taboo (禁忌) about talking about money than about death

出自-2011年12月閱讀原文

It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (營養(yǎng)不良)and heat-related health problems.

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum's report was "a methodological embarrassment" because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受傷害的) regions

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

Even if those causes of death were eliminated, life expectancy would still not go much beyond 92 years.

2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

For example, 10 bacteria or less of an especially deadly strain of bacteria can cause severe illness and death in people with compromised immune systems.

2018年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?

2015年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

In the state of South Carolina, a convicted murderer was given the death penalty for a crime he committed while he was a minor.

2015年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

In the United States, the governor of a state has the power to change a sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.

2015年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Of the 36 states that allow the death penalty, 30 permit the execution of minors.

2015年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

So if something happens to their food source, they have a way of not starving to death until they find more algae to eat.

2019年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a "measured haste" to get big new things done while there is still time.

2017年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

The young murderer remained on death row for ten years while his lawyer appealed to the governor.

2015年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Since tobacco is one of the biggest causes of premature death in the UK, a measure that tames the habit even by a fraction is worth trying.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

Premature death rates resulting from smoking have declined.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

The leading causes of death in this age group are also changing.

出自-2016年12月聽力原文

That pushed flu from the third leading cause of death to the fifth.

出自-2016年12月聽力原文

One reason for the rise in deaths from Alzheimer’s disease in this group may be that developing this condition remains possible even after people beat the odds of dying from other diseases such as cancer.

出自-2016年12月聽力原文

On the other hand, the death rate from flu dropped from 7.4% in 2000 to 4.1% in 2014.

出自-2016年12月聽力原文

In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.

出自-2016年12月聽力原文

In 2000, the top five causes of death for centenarians were heart disease, stroke, flu, cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease.

出自-2016年12月聽力原文

But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.

出自-2016年12月聽力原文

But because this population is getting larger, the number of deaths in this group is also increasing.

出自-2016年12月聽力原文

John Rother, the AARP's head of policy and strategy, points to studies showing that other things being equal, people who remain at work have lower death rates than their retired peers.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

Don't risk injury or death beacuse of over-confidence or lack of knowledge.

出自-2012年12月聽力原文

Consistently, research shows that communicating with others promotes health, whereas social isolation is linked to stress, disease, and early death.

出自-2010年6月聽力原文

But insurance will be cold comfort following the failure on October 31st of VSS Enterprise, resulting in the death of one pilot and the severe injury to another.

2015年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

But its surface has been cooked and dried by an ocean of carbon dioxide, trapped in the burning death grip of a runaway greenhouse effect.

2019年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.

2015年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Flamingos, however, are the only species that actually makes life in the midst of all that death.

2017年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Her time-lapse videos of the revivals look like someone playing a tape of the plant's death in reverse.

2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

It is becoming increasingly clear that retail reinvention isn't a simple battle to the death between bricks and clicks.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

right now, to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that mothers not sleep in the same bed as their babies, but sleep in the same room.

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

The death of a small child would have no effect upon the income of the family.

2017年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Three hundred years after her death, Merian will be celebrated at an international symposium in Amsterdam this June.

2018年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Through careful preparation, the death toll from a super tropical storm in November 2007 was less than 3, 500.

2016年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Brooks carries this through to the death of one of his characters.

2015年高考英語湖北卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文

But pronouncing the death of class is too early.

2015年高考英語廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Dance expresses love and hate, joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything else in between.

2018年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

Had the governments and scientists not worked together, aids-related deaths would not have fallen since their highest in 2005.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 單項選擇 原文

Hannah's place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that sleeping outdoors can mean death.

2017年高考英語北京卷 完形填空 原文

"I knew it was the difference between life and death," says Taylor.

2017年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

Now it occurred to him that his farm had much potential and that the death of the cow was a bit of luck.

2015年高考英語廣東卷 語法填空 原文

One of the executives gathered at the Aspen Institute for a day-long leadership workshop using the works of Shakespeare was discussing the role of brutus in the death of julius caesar.

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Only five years after Steve Jobs' death, smart-phones defeated conventional PCs in sales.

2017年高考英語江蘇卷 單項填空 原文

She had requested the community to tum it into a museum upon her death.

2018年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Still, the people who exercise 150 minutes a week did pretty well, too, lowering their death risk by 14%.

2019年高考英語全國卷I 聽力 原文

The annual death rate for adult condors has dropped from 38% in 2000 to 5%.

2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

The death of Russians may result in a shrinking population, which would damage its economic future.

2017年高考英語江蘇卷 任務型閱讀 題設

The miracle of 1511 took place during six freezing works called the winter of death.

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

2017年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

The study showed that people who put in 300 minutes a week of exercise had a 20% lower risk of death due to heart disease.

2019年高考英語全國卷I 聽力 原文

This affects their nervous systems and ability to produce baby birds, and can lead to kidney failures and death.

2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Two of the authors of the review also made a study published in 2014 which/that showed a mere five to 10 minutes a day of running reduced the risk of heart disease and early deaths from all causes.

2018年高考英語全國卷I 語法填空 原文

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975,is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

出自-2010年考研閱讀原文

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern reader shave little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

出自-2010年考研閱讀原文

And the ban on ultra-thin models seems to go beyond protecting models from starving themselves to death – as some have done.

出自-2016年考研閱讀原文

By the time Shakespeare was twenty-five, Lyly, Peele, and Greene had made comedies that were at once popular and literary; Kyd had written a tragedy that crowded the pit; and Marlowe had brought poetry and genius to triumph on the common stage - where they had played no part since the death of Euripides.

出自-2018年考研翻譯原文

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

2010年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

2010年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Offering up such a theory during a time of high tension between scientific and religious minds was branded as heresy, and any such heretics that continued to spread these lies were to be punished by imprisonment or even death.

2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The three Ds—death, debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market.

2010年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. the event of dying or departure from life;

    "her death came as a terrible shock"

    "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"

  • 2. the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism;

    "the animal died a painful death"

  • 3. the time at which life ends; continuing until dead;

    "she stayed until his death"

    "a struggle to the last"

  • 4. the absence of life or state of being dead;

    "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"

  • 5. the time when something ends;

    "it was the death of all his plans"

    "a dying of old hopes"

  • 6. the act of killing;

    "he had two deaths on his conscience"

  • 7. a final state;

    "he came to a bad end"

    "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"

同義詞

其他釋義

departure

反義詞

n.死,死亡;毀滅

birthlife

其他釋義

lifebirth

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