death
/deθ/noun
mass noun
1- the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person's or organism's life死, 死亡：
I don't believe in life after death
我不相信阴世生命
as modifier a death sentence.死刑。
1.1
- an instance of a person or an animal dying死去：
there's been a death in his family.
他家有人去世。
1.2
- the state of being dead死亡（状态）：
even in death, she was beautiful.
就是死时, 她也是美丽的。
1.3
- the permanent ending of vital processes in a cell or tissue（细胞或组织）死亡。
1.4
Death
in sing. the personification of the power that destroys life, often represented in art and literature as a skeleton or an old man holding a scythe死神。
1.5
- in sing. figurative the destruction or permanent end of something〈喻〉破灭, 终止, 结束：
the death of her hopes.
她希望的破灭。
1.6
- figurative a damaging or destructive state of affairs〈喻〉破坏, 毁灭：
to be driven to a dance by one's father would be social death.
被父亲开车送去参加舞会会毁了社交。
短语
as sure as death
- quite certain确定无疑。
at death's door
- (especially in hyperbolic use) so ill that one may die［尤作夸张用法］濒临死亡, 行将就木。
be the death of
- (often used hyperbolically or humorously) cause someone's death［常作夸张或幽默用法］置…于死地：
you'll be the death of me with all your questions.
你那么多问题要把我问死了。
be in at the death
1
- be present when a hunted animal is caught and killed目睹猎物被捕获杀死。
1.1
- be present when something fails or comes to an end目睹某事失败（或结束）。
catch one's death (of cold)
- informal catch a severe cold or chill〈非正式〉得重感冒。
die a （或the） death
- come to an end; cease or fail to be popular or successful结束; 不受欢迎, 失败：
the craze for cycling shorts is dying a death.
骑车短裤的热潮快结束了。
do someone to death
- kill someone杀死某人。
do something to death
- perform or repeat something so frequently that it becomes tediously familiar重复得烦死人：
a subject that has been done to death by generations of painters.
被世代画家画得让人厌烦的题材。
a fate worse than death
- a terrible experience, especially that of seduction or rape比死还不济的遭遇（尤指受诱奸或强奸）。
like death warmed up（或〈北美〉over）
- informal extremely tired or ill〈非正式〉十分疲惫; 病重。
a matter of life and death
- 见LIFE.
put someone to death
- kill someone, especially with official sanction（尤指官方批准）杀死, 处死。
till （或until） death us do part
- for as long as each of a couple live至死不渝, 永不分离。
- ORIGIN: from the marriage service in the Book of Common Prayer
to death
1
- used of a particular action or process that results in someone's death（行动, 过程）致命的：
he was stabbed to death.
他被刺死。
1.1
- used to emphasize the extreme nature of a specific action, feeling, or state of mind［用于强调某一行动、感情或思想］极度：
I'm sick to death of you.
我讨厌死你了。
to the death
- until dead到死为止：
a fight to the death.
战斗到底。
派生词
deathlike
adjective词源
Old English dēath, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dood and German Tod, also to DIE1.