deaths

英 [dɛθs]

美 [dɛθs]

n.  死; 死亡; 生命的终止; 死亡状态; 永久的灭亡; 毁灭; 破灭
death的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 死;死亡
  Deathis the permanent end of the life of a person or animal.
  1. 1.5 million people are in immediate danger of death from starvation.
     150 万人正面临着被饿死的急迫危险。
  2. ...the thirtieth anniversary of her death...
     她逝世 30 周年的纪念日
  3. The report mentions the death of 18 people in suspicious circumstances...
     那份报告提到 18 人死亡情况可疑。
  4. There had been a death in the family...
     家里有人过世了。
• N-COUNT (某种）死法，死亡方式
  A particular kind ofdeathis a particular way of dying.
  1. They made sure that he died a horrible death...
     他们让他死得很惨。
  2. He would rather have a decent death which served some purpose than a meaningless death.
     他宁愿死得其所，也不想无谓地死去。
• N-SING 终结;结束;灭亡;破灭
  The death ofsomething is the permanent end of it.
  1. It meant the death of everything he had ever been or ever hoped to be.
     这意味着他过去的一切存在或曾经希望的存在均已终结。
  2. ...the death of pop music.
     流行音乐的死亡
• PHRASE 病危;行将就木
  If you say that someone isat death's door, you mean they are very ill indeed and likely to die.
  1. He told his boss a tale about his mother being at death's door...
     他向老板谎称自己的母亲病危。
  2. My dad was the same. He could be at death's door but wouldn't say a word.
     我爸爸也一样。他就算已经病得快不行了也还是会一声不吭。
• PHRASE 斗争到底;誓死捍卫
  If you say that you willfight to the deathfor something, you are emphasizing that you will do anything to achieve or protect it, even if you suffer as a consequence.
  1. He said they did not want war—but if attacked they would fight to the death...
     他说他们不希望有战争——但一旦遭到攻击，定会战斗到底。
  2. She'd have fought to the death for that child.
     她会为了那个孩子抗争到底。
• PHRASE 生死决斗;殊死决战
  If you refer to a fight or contest asa fight to the death, you are emphasizing that it will not stop until the death or total victory of one of the opponents.
  1. ...an eleven-hour fight to the death between a baboon and leopard...
     一只狒狒和一头美洲豹之间长达 11小时的殊死搏斗
  2. He now faces a fight to the death to reach the quarter-finals.
     他现在面临一场杀入四分之一决赛的殊死决战。
• PHRASE 生死攸关的;至关重要的
  If you say that something is a matterof life and death, you are emphasizing that it is extremely important, often because someone may die or suffer great harm if people do not act immediately.
  1. Well, never mind, John, it's not a matter of life and death...
     好了，约翰，别太在意了。这又不是什么生死攸关的大事。
  2. We're dealing with a life-and-death situation here...
     我们正面临一个生死关头。
  3. It is only a hobby, not a life or death struggle.
     这只是一项爱好，不需要拼死拼活地努力。
• PHRASE 被处死;被处决
  If someoneis put to death, they are executed.
  1. Those put to death by firing squad included three generals.
     行刑队处决的那些人里有 3 名将军。
• PHRASE (用于动词后）以致死亡
  You useto deathafter a verb to indicate that a particular action or process results in someone's death.
  1. He was stabbed to death.
     他被刀刺中身亡。
  2. ...relief missions to try to keep the country's population from starving to death...
     努力确保该国人民不被饿死的救援任务
  3. He almost bled to death after the bullet severed an artery.
     子弹穿过动脉，他失血过多几乎性命不保。
• PHRASE (用于形容词或动词后，表示强调)吓得要死/无聊得要命
  You useto deathafter an adjective or a verb to emphasize the action, state, or feeling mentioned. For example, if you arefrightened to deathorbored to death, you are extremely frightened or bored.
  1. He scares teams to death with his pace and power...
     他的速度之快、力量之大让其他队胆战不已。
  2. Whereas 10 years ago I would have worried myself to death about it, now I accept it is part of the game...
     10 年前我会为此担心得要命，但现在我接受了它是游戏的一部分。
  3. I went out last night, but not for very long. I was bored to death.
     昨晚我出去了，但没有呆很久。我感觉无聊透了。
• PHRASE 使…累死累活地工作（或劳动）
  If you say that someoneworksanother personto death, you are emphasizing that they make them work very hard indeed, especially in a way that seems cruel or unfair.
  1. They worked themselves to death but never lost their humour.
     他们累死累活地干活，但却从没有丢掉幽默感。

双语例句

• More than a quarter of the avoidable deaths in the developing world are caused by TB
  发展中国家的可避免死亡中超过1/4是由肺结核引起的。
• The chaos may have contributed to the deaths of up to 20 people
  混乱可能导致多达20人丧生。
• The storm is thought to be responsible for as many as four deaths
  据认为，暴风雨造成4人死亡。
• Extrapolating from his American findings, he reckons about 80% of these deaths might be attributed to smoking
  根据他在美国的调查结果推断，他估计这些人中约有80%可能死于吸烟。
• The deaths occurred when police acted to stop widespread looting and vandalism
  警方采取行动制止猖狂的打砸抢行为时有多人丧生。
• Most of the deaths were caused by landslides and collapsing buildings.
  大部分死亡是由山体滑坡和建筑倒塌造成的。
• In the sixties there were the deaths of the two Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King.
  20世纪60年代，肯尼迪兄弟和马丁·路德·金先后去世。
• Deaths caused by reckless driving are avoidable.
  因鲁莽驾驶引起的死亡是可以避免的。
• Alan Tomlinson has reconstructed the events that led up to the deaths
  艾伦·汤姆林森再现了导致多人死亡的一系列事件。
• There were 160 more births than deaths in the town last year.
  该镇去年出生的人数比死亡人数多160人。