音标:[deθ] ; 柯林斯词典等级:4 级; 牛津三千核心词汇;
n. 死亡
[医] 死亡
n. the event of dying or departure from life
n. the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
n. the absence of life or state of being dead
n. the time when something ends
词型变化:名词复数形式 : deaths
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death的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. The seedling was frozen to death.幼苗被冻死了。
  2. The farm came to him on his father's death.他父亲死时把农场留给他了。
  3. The film ends with the death of the heroine.这部电影以女主角的死告终。
  4. Car accidents caused many deaths.车祸造成很多人死亡。
  5. He had to choose between death and dishonour.他必须在死亡和屈辱之间作出选择。
  6. That defeat meant the death of all my hopes.那次失败毁灭了我所有的希望。
  7. There are conflicting versions of the girl's death.女孩死因的说法相互矛盾。
  8. The policeman wanted to determine her death.那名警察想要查明她的死因。

常见句型

用作名词(n.)
  1. Death comes to all men.人皆有死。
  2. All men must die, but death can vary in its significance.人总是要死的,但死的意义有所不同。
  3. Her death was a real grief.她的去世实在令人痛心。
  4. His wife's death was a great blow to him.他妻子去世对他是一个沉重的打击。
  5. The alternatives are death and submission.或死或降,任选其一。
  6. He was willing to risk death to save his friend.他甘愿冒死去救朋友。
  7. The Supreme Court is expected to uphold the death sentence.预计最高法院将维持死刑的原判。
  8. After death, the king's body was interred in a specially constructed tomb.那国王死后被安葬在一座特别建筑的坟墓里。
  9. The sick man is in danger of death.这位病人有死亡的危险。
  10. March 6 is the date of his death.他死的日期是3月6日。
  11. The news of his death filled her with despair.他去世的消息使她绝望了。
  12. She described how she had narrowly escaped death.她叙述了她九死一生的经历。
  13. If their identity should be discovered, it would mean sure death.万一他们的身份被发觉,那就免不了一死。
  14. They avenged his death by burning the village.他们烧毁村子,为他的死复仇。
  15. The worker was scalded to death when the boiler exploded.锅炉爆炸时那个工人被开水烫死。
  16. The chief of the police force spread the word that he would put to death all the arrested student representatives.警察长扬言要枪毙这些被捕的学生代表。
  17. Jack was sentenced to death for murdering his wife.杰克因谋杀他的妻子被判处死刑。
  18. Drink will be the death of him.酗酒将会要他的命。
  19. Oh, don't make me laugh any more or you'll be the death of me.啊!别再让我笑了,不然非笑死我不可。
  20. The protest will die a slow death.抗议将会慢慢平息。
  21. Death is often shown in pictures as a human skeleton.死神常被画成骷髅。

常用短语

用作名词(n.)
as pale as death
    面无人色 very pale
at death's door
    就要死掉 dying
be sick to death of
    对…极厌倦 feel very tired about sth
catch one's death
    得致命的感冒 catch a chill bad cold
dice with death
    冒生命危险 risk on life
die the death
    突然停止 stop suddenly
do to death
    把…重复得令人厌烦 overdo; overexposedo sth to death

    The television companies have done to death the coverage of the election,I'm tired of it already.

    电视公司把选举的报道重复得令人生厌,我早已感到厌倦了。

    I used to like that song once, but now it's been done to death; every singer has made a record of it.

    我过去一直很喜欢那首歌,可现在它老是重复着唱令人生厌; 每一个歌手都录制了这首歌。

feel like death warmed up
    感到筋疲力尽 feel exhausted
in at the death
    看到事情的结局 present at the very end
put to death
    处死,杀死 killput sb to death

    The blood-sucker was put to death by the peasants there and then.

    噬血的资本家立即被农民杀掉了。

tickle to death
    非常高兴 highly amusedtickle sb to death

    We were all tickled to death at the antics of the clowns.

    看到小丑的滑稽动作,我们乐极了。

to death
    极其,非常 very
to the death
    到底,至死 until sb is defeated or killed
work to death
    把…累垮; 把…损坏 force sb/sth to work excessivelywork sb/sth to death

    The company expects hard work, but refuses to work its employees to death.

    公司要求工作勤奋,但不想把雇员累垮。

    The engine had been worked to death and was in need of major repairs.

    这个引擎已被用坏了,需要大修。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)
动词+~
  • announce the death of宣告…逝世
  • avenge the death of为…的死报仇
  • bring death带来死亡
  • catch one's death of患致命的…
  • cause death造成死亡
  • die a dog's death惨死,可耻地死去,潦倒而死
  • die a hero's death英勇牺牲
  • die a natural death寿终正寝
  • die a slow death慢慢平息
  • do sb to death杀死某人
  • drink oneself to death喝得醉死过去
  • escape death幸免于死
  • face death面对死亡
  • fear death怕死
  • fight to the death战斗到底,战死
  • have a happy death幸福地死去
  • meet death面临死亡
  • mourn sb's death沉痛哀悼…的逝世
  • put sb to death处死某人
  • receive death at sb's hand自寻短见
  • suffer death遭受死亡
  • stone sb to death用石头砸死某人
形容词+~
  • brave death勇敢的死
  • certain death无可避免的死亡
  • cruel death惨死
  • early death早逝,夭折,夭亡
  • happy death幸福的死
  • inglorious death可耻的死
  • living death活地狱
  • many deaths许多死亡
  • natural death老死,因年老而死
  • sure death必然的死亡
  • the Black D-黑死病
名词+~
  • brain death脑死亡
~+名词
  • death bell丧钟
  • death blow致命的打击
  • death chair(处决死囚的)电椅
  • death control靠现代医学使寿命延长的做法
  • death roll死亡名册
介词+~
  • at death逝世时
  • by the death of sb由于某人的逝世
  • in death as in life虽死犹生
  • in the death of sb由于某人的逝世
  • in the hour of sb's death在某人逝世的时刻
  • day of death死期
  • point of death死亡的边缘
  • to the death至死,到底
  • until death终生
~+介词
  • death by死于
  • death by fire被火烧死
  • death by hanging绞死
  • death in the family家中有人亡故
  • death of one's hopes希望的破灭
  • death on善于,是…能手,对…极为不满,竭力反对
  • death on smoking竭力反对抽烟

经典引文

  • The Greek did not believe death to be annihilation.

    出自:J. R. Seeley
  • My mother's untimely death.

    出自:Day Lewis
  • The hideous death designed by the law for traitors.

    出自:C. V. Wedgwood
  • Over them triumphant Death his Dart Shook; but delaid to strike.

    出自:personified
  • Into the jaws of Death..Rode the six hundred.

    出自:Tennyson
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a man of no fixed abode
ability of anti-nuclear-radiation
adell
admissible character
alabama cotton
alimenting
Ancyrognathus
aqueductus
assubjugating
back pain
benchmarkable
beneathness
bookkeeping typewriter
buying clerk
characeeristic component
chipware
clavicular line
coaxial speaker
cochealed
congenital bilateral dislocation of knee joints
cordles
deianira
depa
developing bacteroidal tissue
direct labour basis
drum operation system
economic extinction
effective discharge
eitner
electrooptic modulation
enter into a partnership with
enzyme action
ethyl sulfate
Excelgrow
facemailed
falchion
falls asleep
fisher-price
floating storage
fluoroorotic
forensic linguistics
general stockholders' meeting
Ghom
globular stage
greenidea brideliae
hardenablity
have not a dry thread on one
high quality
Hollywood science
Hyoscyamus pusillus
index number of retail prices
interim reform package
Iosopan
ITS-90
jugerum
kanzo
knotter disc
Kora Nehir
Lindside
lineariss
lunar communication
Morozovskiy
near-diffraction-limited mirror
NSF check
ohio-based
ophiernus
ora coleopterorum
passholders
peripatecians
peroryctid
personal life
Phlebotomus stantoni
pile fabric
Plush-Capped
political entities
postvaccine
precision machine tool
provided on four sides
put to shame
reaction control agent
refusals
rivergod
sammarai
sanitary
semi-chemical pulping process
shelf-stable
skew arch
slip-tube shaft
soil skeleton
Soton
subcutaneous injury
subiodide
sudachi
tanker ship
tertiary stem villus
took the stage
top hat frames
unilateral hemianopsia
unviewable
v-jointeds
Wallhausen
zea mays indentatas