dead
adj. 死的; 死气沉沉的; 用尽的; 没电的; 完全的; 已停滞的
adv. 完全地; 非常; 正好
n. 死(者)
A person, animal, or plant that is dead is no longer living.
Her husband's been dead a year now...
她的丈夫已经去世一年了。
The group had shot dead another hostage.
该组织又开枪打死了一名人质。
Land or water that is dead contains no living things.
...charred land, mountainsides of dead earth and stumps of trees...
烧焦的土地、无一活物的山坡和残存的树桩
But this water seems dead: it's polluted and horribly stagnant.
但这似乎是一潭死水:受了污染而且恶臭无比。
If you describe a place or a period of time as dead, you do not like it because there is very little activity taking place in it.
...some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies...
某个死气沉沉的小镇,那里最有活力的东西就是苍蝇
This made that holiday week a particularly dead period.
这让那一周的假期显得特别沉闷。
Something that is dead is no longer being used or is finished.
The dead cigarette was still between his fingers...
那支已熄灭的香烟仍在他指间。
This bottle's dead. But we've got another one.
这一瓶已经空了,不过我们还有一瓶。
If you say that an idea, plan, or subject is dead, you mean that people are no longer interested in it or willing to develop it any further.
It's a dead issue, Baxter...
这个问题已经没人再谈论了,巴克斯特。
But that doesn't mean this brand of politics is dead or dying...
但那并不意味着这种政治主张已经或正在消亡。
A dead language is no longer spoken or written as a means of communication, although it may still be studied.
We used to grumble that we were wasting time learning a dead language.
我们过去常常抱怨自己是在浪费时间学一门死语言。
A telephone or piece of electrical equipment that is dead is no longer functioning, for example because it no longer has any electrical power.
On another occasion I answered the phone and the line went dead.
还有一回,我一接电话,就掉线了。
In sport, when a ball is dead, it has gone outside the playing area, or a situation has occurred in which the game has to be temporarily stopped, and none of the players can score points or gain an advantage.
A dead sound or colour is dull rather than lively or bright.
'That is correct, Meg,' he answered in his cold, dead voice...
“没错,梅格。”他用冰冷、阴沉的声音答道。
Then he heard a piercing scream echoing down the deep well, ending in a dull, dead thud.
接着他听见深井里回响起一声刺耳的尖叫,然后是砰的一声闷响,再之后就什么也听不见了。
Dead is used to mean 'complete' or 'absolute', especially before the words 'centre', 'silence', and 'stop'.
He adjusted each chesspiece so that it stood dead centre in its square...
他调整每颗棋子,使它们立于格子的正中央。
They hurried about in dead silence, with anxious faces...
他们匆匆地走来走去,一言不发,面露焦急之色。
Dead means 'precisely' or 'exactly'.
Mars was visible, dead in the centre of the telescope...
可以看得见火星,就在望远镜的正中央。
Their arrows are dead on target...
他们的箭正中靶心。
Dead is sometimes used to mean 'very'.
Meadowhall is also dead easy for people to get to...
去梅多霍尔购物中心也非常方便。
His poems sound dead boring, actually...
实际上,他的诗听起来非常乏味。
If you reply 'Over my dead body' when a plan or action has been suggested, you are emphasizing that you dislike it, and will do everything you can to prevent it.
'Let's invite her to dinner.' — 'Over my dead body!'
“我们请她来吃晚饭吧。”——“除非我死了!”
If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future.
I thought the whole business was dead and buried...
我以为这整件事已经完全了结了。
In two years, the British coal industry will be dead and buried.
英国煤炭工业只消两年就将彻底瓦解。
If you say that a person or animal dropped dead or dropped down dead, you mean that they died very suddenly and unexpectedly.
He dropped dead on the quayside.
他猝死在码头区。
If you tell someone to drop dead, you are insulting them, rudely disagreeing with them, or refusing to do something, or telling them to stop bothering you.
75% of the firms he called were hostile and told him to 'drop dead.'
在他电话联系的公司里,75% 都怀有敌意,让他“见鬼去吧”。
If you say that someone is dead and gone, you are emphasizing that they are dead, and thinking about what happened or will happen after their death.
Often a genius is recognized only after he is dead and gone.
天才往往在离开人世之后才得到认可。
If you say that you feel dead or are half dead, you mean that you feel very tired or ill and very weak.
You looked half dead after that journey...
经过那趟旅程之后,你看上去真是累坏了。
I feel pretty dead right now.
我觉得自己现在几乎快要死了。
If something happens in the dead of night ,at dead of night, or in the dead of winter, it happens in the middle part of the night or the winter, when it is darkest or coldest.
I couldn't fly illegally into a country in the dead of night...
我不能在深夜乘飞机非法进入一个国家。
We buried it in the garden at dead of night...
我们在夜深人静的时候把它埋到了花园里。
When Christians say that Jesus Christ rose from the dead or raised someone from the dead, they mean that Jesus came back to life after he had died, or brought a dead person back to life.
If you say that someone or something rises or comes back from the dead, you mean that they become active or successful again after being inactive for a while.
This was a company that, by all appearances, had risen from the dead...
从一切迹象来看,这是一家已经起死回生的公司。
Faldo came back from the dead to win his third Open golf championship.
福尔多重整旗鼓,赢得了他的第三个高尔夫球公开赛冠军。
If you say that you wouldn't be seen dead or be caught dead in particular clothes, places, or situations, you are expressing strong dislike or disapproval of them.
I wouldn't be seen dead in a straw hat.
我死也不会戴草帽。
...men who wouldn't be seen dead pushing a pram...
死也不会去推婴儿车的男人们
To stop dead means to suddenly stop happening or moving. To stop someone or something dead means to cause them to suddenly stop happening or moving.
We all stopped dead and looked at it...
我们一下子全都停了下来看着它。
She had meant to make a discreet entrance, but conversation stopped dead...
她本打算悄悄进去,但谈话却突然中断了。
If you say that someone or something is dead in the water, you are emphasizing that they have failed, and that there is little hope of them being successful in the future.
A 'no' vote would have left the treaty dead in the water.
一张否决票可能就会使这个条约胎死腹中。
1. people who are no longer living;
2. a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense;
1. no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life;
2. not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat;
3. very tired;
4. unerringly accurate;
5. physically inactive;
6. total;
7. not endowed with life;
8. (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive;
9. devoid of physical sensation; numb;
10. lacking acoustic resonance;
11. not yielding a return;
12. not circulating or flowing;
13. out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown;
14. not surviving in active use;
15. lacking resilience or bounce;
16. no longer in force or use; inactive;
17. no longer having force or relevance;
18. sudden and complete;
19. drained of electric charge; discharged;
20. lacking animation or excitement or activity;
21. devoid of activity;
1. quickly and without warning;
2. completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers;
(as) dead as a (或 the) dodo
(as) dead as a doornail
(as) dead as mutton
dead from the neck up
(非正式)愚蠢的
dead meat
(非正式)有麻烦,死定了
the dead of night
深夜,夜深人静时
the dead of winter
隆冬,严冬
dead on
完全正确
dead on one's feet
(非正式)累极了
dead to the world
(非正式)沉睡,酣睡
from the dead
从死亡
make a dead set at
over my dead body
wouldn't be seen (或 caught) dead in (或 with, at 等)
(非正式)[用于表示对某事物的强烈厌恶]死也不要
You really slept like the dead and did not hear anything.
你睡得挺尸似的,什么也没有听到.
Now he was dead, and I could not get away from my sadness.
现在他死了, 而我无法摆脱悲痛.
No one could emerge from that avalanche alive, unless one believed that man could rise from the dead.
没人能从那次雪崩中活着出来, 除非相信人能死而复生.
His research was at a dead end.
他的研究无法进行下去.
We drove into a dead end and had to back out.
我们把车子开进了一条死胡同,只得退出来.