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单词 death wish
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Definition of death wish in English:

death wish

noun
  • An unconscious desire for one's own death.

    求死愿望。比较DEATH INSTINCT

    Example sentencesExamples
    • How can the railways cater for the occasional idiot with a death wish?
    • I rolled over to look at my clock and groaned. 5: 30 am, whoever was knocking had a serious death wish.
    • The parallel between suicide and death was established as early as Freud in his discussions of the death wish, and also in the work of Klein.
    • He knew that approaching now would be a death wish.
    • Ever-present cigarettes create the disturbing impression that the film's characters are possessed by a collective death wish.
    • Think about it - anyone who smokes in this day and age of acute awareness of the many and sundry risks involved obviously has a death wish.
    • Beyond a small circle of knuckle draggers with a death wish, will aircraft-grade aluminum toboggans and such sell?
    • Wilbur, who longs for Alice himself but recognizes his death wish means he doesn't have much to offer, starts making tiny changes in his life.
    • Don't scream in fear, tourists already think we have a death wish.
    • At one level, this behavior may be interpreted as acting out a death wish, or a suicide pact, in which both partners ultimately die.
    • The sniper wants to be caught because he has a death wish.
    • The journey is further enlivened by local drivers, who appear to have a collective death wish, and the occasional stray cow grazing by the roadside.
    • It would be speaking too strongly to claim that the French and like-minded inhabitants of other continental European countries have a death wish.
    • This is the sort of course all golfers with a death wish want to play: if you are slightly off your game it will slowly drag you down into a state of mediocrity.
    • ‘Only those with a death wish just sit out here in the snow,’ said Zechariah.
    • It's a neat conceit, highly theatrical: drop four unrelated characters with a death wish onto a makeshift stage and see what happens.
    • Whether this collision was really an accident or due to a subconscious death wish is open to question.
    • In many senses, an especially beautiful literary expression of suicide that does not involve the death wish is in The Little Prince.
    • Could the British press have discovered a curious tendency for elephants with a death wish to form groups of 280, or was this a coincidence?
    • Certainly the world of The Grifters is not for the faint of heart, where life is a moral quicksand, relaxing is a death wish, and escape is impossible.

Definition of death wish in US English:

death wish

nounˈdɛθ ˌwɪʃˈdeTH ˌwiSH
  • A desire for someone's death, especially an unconscious desire for one's own death.

    求死愿望。比较DEATH INSTINCT

    Compare with death instinct
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Certainly the world of The Grifters is not for the faint of heart, where life is a moral quicksand, relaxing is a death wish, and escape is impossible.
    • He knew that approaching now would be a death wish.
    • In many senses, an especially beautiful literary expression of suicide that does not involve the death wish is in The Little Prince.
    • Beyond a small circle of knuckle draggers with a death wish, will aircraft-grade aluminum toboggans and such sell?
    • I rolled over to look at my clock and groaned. 5: 30 am, whoever was knocking had a serious death wish.
    • The parallel between suicide and death was established as early as Freud in his discussions of the death wish, and also in the work of Klein.
    • This is the sort of course all golfers with a death wish want to play: if you are slightly off your game it will slowly drag you down into a state of mediocrity.
    • It would be speaking too strongly to claim that the French and like-minded inhabitants of other continental European countries have a death wish.
    • How can the railways cater for the occasional idiot with a death wish?
    • Whether this collision was really an accident or due to a subconscious death wish is open to question.
    • Don't scream in fear, tourists already think we have a death wish.
    • The journey is further enlivened by local drivers, who appear to have a collective death wish, and the occasional stray cow grazing by the roadside.
    • Could the British press have discovered a curious tendency for elephants with a death wish to form groups of 280, or was this a coincidence?
    • It's a neat conceit, highly theatrical: drop four unrelated characters with a death wish onto a makeshift stage and see what happens.
    • Wilbur, who longs for Alice himself but recognizes his death wish means he doesn't have much to offer, starts making tiny changes in his life.
    • Think about it - anyone who smokes in this day and age of acute awareness of the many and sundry risks involved obviously has a death wish.
    • The sniper wants to be caught because he has a death wish.
    • ‘Only those with a death wish just sit out here in the snow,’ said Zechariah.
    • Ever-present cigarettes create the disturbing impression that the film's characters are possessed by a collective death wish.
    • At one level, this behavior may be interpreted as acting out a death wish, or a suicide pact, in which both partners ultimately die.
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