喜樂美語

核心畫面

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…更多收起可以想成： 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）。

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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

  • 1

    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.
  • 2

    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.
  • 3

    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"
  • 4

    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.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。