| 释义 |
Examples:while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)—burn the books and bury alive the Confucian scholars (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC)—be buried alive as sacrifice (together with husband or superior)—the spirit (of some doctrine) is still alive—nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape—bed kept as it was when the deceased was alive—mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape—lit. although dead, as if still alive (idiom); still with us in spirit—It is better squash enmity rather than keeping it alive (proverb)—hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive—boil sb. alive (capital punishment in Imperial China)—spring sunshine emerges bring the world alive [idiom.]— |