death

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基本释义

n.
死(亡); 终结,破灭; 死神

词性变化

实用例句

Police are trying to establish the cause of death .

警方在设法确定死因。

牛津词典

Do you believe in life after death ?

你相信来世吗?

牛津词典

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

死亡集中营(常指战争中杀害俘虏的地方)

牛津词典

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

他被判处死刑。

牛津词典

a sudden/violent/peaceful, etc. death

猝死、横死、安详的死等

牛津词典

the anniversary of his wife's death

他妻子的忌日

牛津词典

an increase in deaths from cancer

癌症死亡人数的增加

牛津词典

He died a slow and painful death.

他缓慢而痛苦地死去。

牛津词典

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

两个孩子被大火烧死。

牛津词典

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

他这样喝酒非醉死不可。

牛津词典

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

他的速度之快、力量之大让其他队胆战不已。

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

10 年前我会为此担心得要命,但现在我接受了它是游戏的一部分。

They worked themselves to death but never lost their humour.

他们累死累活地干活,但却从没有丢掉幽默感。

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...

努力确保该国人民不被饿死的救援任务

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

他现在面临一场杀入四分之一决赛的殊死决战。

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

好了,约翰,别太在意了。这又不是什么生死攸关的大事。

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

我们正面临一个生死关头。

Those put to death by firing squad included three generals.

行刑队处决的那些人里有 3 名将军。

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

她逝世 30 周年的纪念日

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

他们让他死得很惨。

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

他宁愿死得其所,也不想无谓地死去。

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

这意味着他过去的一切存在或曾经希望的存在均已终结。

...the death of pop music.

流行音乐的死亡

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

他向老板谎称自己的母亲病危。

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

我爸爸也一样。他就算已经病得快不行了也还是会一声不吭。

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

他说他们不希望有战争——但一旦遭到攻击,定会战斗到底。

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

她会为了那个孩子抗争到底。

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

一只狒狒和一头美洲豹之间长达 11小时的殊死搏斗

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

150 万人正面临着被饿死的急迫危险。

真题例句

They break routines, because autopilot is death.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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月听力原文

Americans have always argued about the death penalty.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

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月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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 (易受伤害的) regions

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

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

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)听力 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月四级真题(第二套)听力 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月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

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

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 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月阅读原文

Premature death rates resulting from smoking have declined.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年12月听力原文

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

出自-2016年12月听力原文

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月听力原文

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月听力原文

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月听力原文

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月听力原文

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月听力原文

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

出自-2016年12月听力原文

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月阅读原文

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

出自-2012年12月听力原文

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月听力原文

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月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

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

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

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

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

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

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

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

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

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

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

But pronouncing the death of class is too early.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

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

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 单项选择 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年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

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

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语广东卷 语法填空 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年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2017年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文

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

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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

2019年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

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

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 题设

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

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

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

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语全国卷I 语法填空 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年考研阅读原文

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年考研阅读原文

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年考研阅读原文

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年考研翻译原文

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年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

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"

同义词

其他释义

departure

反义词

n.死,死亡;毁灭

birthlife

其他释义

lifebirth

最新英语单词

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