| 释义 |
death interj.imprecation or oath（咒语）该死。
△H.VIII1.3.13:“Death,my lord.”真该死啊，大人。
Phrases & Expressions:
death rock me asleep: The first words of an ancient song supposed to be written by Anne Boleyn,wife ofHenry VIII,while awaiting execution:“O death rockme on sleep,/ Bring me on quiet rest.”“让死神摇着我入睡”，一首古歌的开头。
△2H.IV.2.4.210 (197): “Thendeath rock me asleep,abridge my doleful days!”那么让死神摇着我入睡，缩短我悲伤的日子！
death’s face: death’s head,skull 死人头，骷髅。
△L.L.L.5.2.613 (612): “A death’s face in a ring.”指环上的骷髅。
do... to death: put...to death,kill 把…处死，杀死。
△2H.VI.3.2.179: “Why. Warwick. who should dothe Duke to death?” 嗳，沃里克，谁会把公爵弄死呢？
△2H.VI.3.2.244: “Unless Lord Suffolk straight bedone to death,/ Or banished fair England’sterritories. / They will by violence tear him fromyour palace.”除非萨福克被立即处死，或者被放逐于美好的英格兰国境之外，他们就要用暴力把他拖出你的宫殿。
△3H.VI2.1.101:“That Plantagenet,/ Which held thee dear-ly as his soul’s redemption,/ Is by the stern LordClifford done to death.”那位普兰塔琪奈特，他把你看得同他的灵魂一样珍贵的，现在已被那个凶狠的克利福勋爵杀死了。
take my death: take my oath on pain of death,stakemy life on it拿我的性命来发誓（打赌）。
△2H.VI.2.3.90(87): “and touching the Duke of York. I will take mydeath I never meant him any ill. nor the king. northe queen；”关于约克公爵，我愿拿我的性命来发誓，我对他绝无恶意，对国王，王后也无恶意。
to the death: ❶as long as we live只要我们活着，就…
△L.L.L.5.2.146: “No. to the death we will not move a foot.”不，只要我们活着，就不挪动一步。
❷thoughit cost me my life. if we die for it哪怕要我的命，就是死，也…
△R.III.3.2.53: “But that I’ll give my voice onRichard’s side / To bar my master’s heirs in truedescent. / God knows I will not do it,to the death!”假如要我表态支持理查一边去阻止我的主上的后嗣继承权，上帝明鉴，哪怕要我的命，我也不干！ |