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kill (obj)kIlvto cause (someone or something) to die杀死，使死亡Her parents were killed in a plane crash. [T]她的父母在一次空难中丧生。She killed her husband after years of abuse. [T]她在多年受虐后杀死了丈夫。Just a tiny drop of this poison is enough to kill. [I]一小滴这种毒药就足以致人死。Food must be heated to a high temperature to kill harmful bacteria. [T]食物必须经高温加热杀灭有害的细菌。(fig. ) My sister would kill me (= be very angry with me) if she heard me say that. [T]要是我姐姐听见我这么说，会对我大发脾气的。(fig. ) Lack of romance can kill (= destroy) a marriage. [T]缺乏爱情会毁了婚姻。(fig.) The housing project was killed (= stopped) before building was even started. [T]还没开始建造，住房建筑计划就停止了。(fig. ) The doctor gave her some tablets to kill (= stop) the pain. [T]医生给了她一些药片止痛。(fig. infml) I must sit down, my feet are killing me (= causing me a lot of pain)! [T]我得坐下来，脚疼极了！(fig. infml) He didn't exactly kill himself trying (= He did not try very hard) to get the work finished. [T]他并没有竭尽全力去完成工作。(fig. infml) It wouldn't kill you to apologize (= it is not as difficult as it might seem). [T]道歉对你并不困难。(fig. infml) We were killing ourselves laughing (= we laughed a lot). [T]我们快笑死了。(esp. Am) If something or someone kills someone else it entertains them very much.使绝倒;使倾倒That comedian kills me. [T]那个喜剧演员使我绝倒。If you kill something off, you destroy it completely, usually over a period of time.灭绝;杀光Many people thought the disease had been killed off in the last century. [M]许多人以为这种病在上个世纪就已灭绝了。(fig. esp. Am) The two of them killed (off) (= drank all of) a bottle in one evening. [T]他们两人一晚上喝了一瓶酒。(Br) If you say that something will kill or cure, you mean that it is an extreme thing to do which will either be very successful or fail completely.孤注一掷;不管怎样A weekend away might kill or cure a troubled marriage.一次周末外出要么挽回陷入困境的婚姻，要么使它彻底失败。If you kill someone with kindness you are so good to them that you in fact do them harm.以过分的好意使感到不自在;以溺爱宠坏(小孩)So Tom's coming home-- we must kill the fatted calf (= have a special celebration to greet someone who has been away for a long time).看来汤姆就要回来了----我们一定要好好给他接风。If you kill the goose that lays the golden egg you destroy something that brings you good things.杀鸡取卵If you kill time or kill an amount of time, you do something that keeps you busy while you are waiting for something else to happen.打发时间The train was late so I killed an hour window-shopping.火车晚点了，我逛了一个小时看橱窗打发时间。If you kill two birds with one stone you manage to achieve two things in a single action.一举两得If I take grandma to the station on the way to picking up the kids from school, I can kill two birds with one stone.如果我在送奶奶去火车站的路上把孩子从学校接回来，我可以一举两得。"Thou shalt not kill: but need not strive / Officiously to keep alive" (Arthur Hugh Clough in the poem The Latest Decalogue, 1862. The first words quote one of the Ten Commandments)“你不可杀戮： 但不必力争/过分殷勤地活下去”（选自阿瑟·休·克拉夫的诗《最新的十诫》）
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