生命的終結（本義）
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death (end of life) · noun · B1
The end of someone's life — the time when a person or animal stops living.
死亡；過世
One way to picture 'death': the moment a life stops — the end, when a person or animal no longer lives. From that single, heavy fact the word spreads: one counted case of someone dying, the end of any thing (an idea, a way of life), the dark figure who stands for dying in old stories, and a whole cluster of everyday phrases that borrow 'death' as the ultimate extreme — 'bored to death', 'at death's door' — using the biggest possible word to push a feeling to its limit.
可以想成： death 是一個生命停下來的那一刻——終點，一個人或一隻動物不再活著。從這個沉甸甸的事實往外散開：一起被計算的死亡案例、任何事物的終結（一個想法、一種生活方式）、老故事裡代表「死」的那個黑影，還有一整串日常片語——它們借「死」這個最極端的字，把感覺推到頂，例如 bored to death（無聊死了）、at death's door（病得快不行）。
Four branches
拿「死」當最高程度（to death）
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to death (very much, intensifier) · noun · B1
Used in 'to death' to mean 'very much' — it makes a strong feeling sound even stronger.
（…to death）非常、要命地（純強調）
至死方休（to the death）
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to the death (fight without giving up) · noun · B1
In 'to the death', meaning a fight or struggle goes on until the very end, with nobody giving up.
（to the death）至死方休、奮戰到底
口語誇張的「死」
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at death's door · noun · B1
If someone is 'at death's door', they are very ill — though people often say it in a light, exaggerated way.
病得很重；（誇張）很不舒服
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Deathname
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The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
- Death can be seen on a tarot card.
- 7 And when hee had opened the fourth seale, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. 8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sate on him was Death, and hell followed with him: and power was giuen vnto them, ouer the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword, & with hunger, and with death, and with the beastes of the earth.
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A surname.
deathnoun/dɛθ/
- 1
The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
- My grandfather died a violent death, which saddened the whole family.
- But foraſmuch as this [the faintneſs of the Heart] is a very bad and heavy diſtemper, and a fore-runner of death, therefore 'tis called a timely death.
- 2
The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
- The serial killer was sentenced to death.
- Thirty years after Gao Chengyong embarked on a succession of 11 rape-murders of women in northwest China, a court sentenced him to death on Friday, following an investigation that involved sifting through 230,000 fingerprints.
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The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
- When death walked in, a chill spread through the room.
- And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sat on him was Death"
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The collapse or end of something.
- England scored a goal at the death to even the score at one all.
- Buyer (negotiating): You were at two-fifty on that one. Go on, then, what's the death on that? Seller: Two hundred pounds is the absolute death. Buyer: Sold. Thank you.
- 5
The collapse or end of something.
- This bake sale is going to be the death of me!
- 6
Spiritual lifelessness.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。