喜樂美語

這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 die (stop living) · a die (dice, singular)

1

die

v

核心畫面

The plain, hard picture: a living thing's life ends — it stops living and is no longer alive. From that one moment of 'life going out' grow softer uses (a sound or feeling out, a machine going dead) and many loud, ones where 'die' just means 'to an extreme degree'.

可以想成一個最樸素也最沉重的畫面：一個活著的東西，生命到此為止——不再活著了。從這個「生命熄滅」的瞬間，往柔和的方向…更多收起可以想成一個最樸素也最沉重的畫面：一個活著的東西，生命到此為止——不再活著了。從這個「生命熄滅」的瞬間，往柔和的方向長出「聲音或感覺漸漸消退、機器突然沒電停住」；往誇張的方向長出一大群口語用法，那裡的 die 其實只是在說「到了極點」。

A second word, same spelling

2

die

n

核心畫面

A small solid cube you hold in your hand — the single one of a pair of 'dice'. This noun 'die' is a different word from the verb 'die (to stop living)'; it just happens to be spelled the same. From the small shaped block grows the engineering tool that stamps shapes, and a famous saying about a thrown cube.

可以想成一塊握在手裡的小立方體——一對「dice（骰子）」當中的單獨一顆。這個名詞 die 跟動詞 die（死亡）是…更多收起可以想成一塊握在手裡的小立方體——一對「dice（骰子）」當中的單獨一顆。這個名詞 die 跟動詞 die（死亡）是兩個不同的字，只是剛好拼法一樣。從這塊有形狀的小方塊，延伸出工程上用來沖壓形狀的金屬模具，以及一句關於「擲出骰子」的名言。

原始詞典資料37 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。

dieverb詞源 1/daɪ/

  • 1

    To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

    • Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
    • The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]
  • 2

    To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

    • He died of malaria.
    • "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver[…].
  • 3

    To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

    • He died from heart failure.
    • She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
  • 4

    To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

    • He died for the one he loved.
    • Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.
  • 5

    archaicTo stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

    • Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die with mockes, / Which is as bad as die with tickling.
    • And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
  • 6

    To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

    • I can't believe I just died to a turret!
    • Dr Thomas concluded she had died to a blow to the head, which led to a bleed on the brain, probably a fall and had hit her head hard on the wooden bedpost, as there was blood on the bedpost.
  • 7

    To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

    • She died with dignity.
  • 8

    To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

    • Will I die a happy man?
另外 16 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

    • He died a hero's death.
    • They died a thousand deaths.
  • 10

    slangvideo-gamesTo lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.

    • Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.
    • Of course, Nazis are not present in this game. Instead, we have animals that will try to cover you with dirt. As soon as you get too dirty, you will die.
  • 11

    To yearn intensely.

    • I'm really dying to eat in that new restaurant.
    • I'm dying for a piss.
  • 12

    To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

    • The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
    • "My dad […] beat us until we couldn't sit down." […] "What about your mother?" […] "She's alive. […] My aunt visits her once a year, but I don't ask about my mother. She died to me the day she chose my father over protecting us." Luke's voice hitched with emotion.
  • 13

    To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

    • He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
    • Do you know that I went down / To the ground / Landed on both my broken-hearted knees... / […]I didn't even cry / 'Cause pieces of me had already died
  • 14

    To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

    • If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
  • 15

    To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

    • When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
    • I literally died when I saw that.
  • 16

    To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".

    • My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
    • Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died.
  • 17

    To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

  • 18

    To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.

    • The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.
  • 19

    To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

    • letting the secret die within his own breast
    • Great deeds cannot die.
  • 20

    To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

    • But it came to passe in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
    • When the truth is found to be lies / And all the joy within you dies / Don't you want somebody to love? / Don't you need somebody to love?
  • 21

    To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

    • to die to pleasure or to sin
  • 22

    architectureTo disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

  • 23

    To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

  • 24

    slangTo fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

    • Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...

dienoun詞源 2/daɪ/

  • 1

    The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.

  • 2

    A device for cutting into a specified shape.

  • 3

    A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)

  • 4

    A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.

  • 5

    An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.

  • 6

    dicegamesAn oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

    • The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die.
    • Once the wafer has undergone the wafer-probe test, it is separated into individual dice by sawing or scribing and breaking. The dice are visually inspected, sorted, and readied for assembly into packages.
  • 7

    Any small cubical or square body.

    • Some young creatures have learnt their letters and syllables, and the pronouncing and spelling of words, by having them pasted or written upon many little flat tablets or dies.

dienoun詞源 2/daɪ/

  • 1

    An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.

    • Most dice are six-sided.
    • I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.
  • 2

    obsoleteThat which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

    • […]For th'equall die of warre he well did know.

dieadv詞源 4/daɪ/

  • 1

    medicinepharmacologysciencesper day

    • Clozapine 100 mg die a.m.

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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。