| 釋義 |
death interj.imprecation or oath（咒語）該死。
△H.VIII1.3.13:“Death,my lord.”真該死啊，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.”“讓死神搖著我入睡”，一首古歌的開頭。
△2H.IV.2.4.210 (197): “Thendeath rock me asleep,abridge my doleful days!”那么讓死神搖著我入睡，縮短我悲傷的日子！
death’s face: death’s head,skull 死人頭，骷髏。
△L.L.L.5.2.613 (612): “A death’s face in a ring.”指環(huán)上的骷髏。
do... to death: put...to death,kill 把…處死，殺死。
△2H.VI.3.2.179: “Why. Warwick. who should dothe Duke to death?” 噯，沃里克，誰會把公爵弄死呢？
△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.”除非薩?？吮涣⒓刺幩溃蛘弑环胖鹩诿篮玫挠⒏裉m國境之外，他們就要用暴力把他拖出你的宮殿。
△3H.VI2.1.101:“That Plantagenet,/ Which held thee dear-ly as his soul’s redemption,/ Is by the stern LordClifford done to death.”那位普蘭塔琪奈特，他把你看得同他的靈魂一樣珍貴的，現(xiàn)在已被那個兇狠的克利福勛爵殺死了。
take my death: take my oath on pain of death,stakemy life on it拿我的性命來發(fā)誓（打賭）。
△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；”關于約克公爵，我愿拿我的性命來發(fā)誓，我對他絕無惡意，對國王，王后也無惡意。
to the death: ?as long as we live只要我們活著，就…
△L.L.L.5.2.146: “No. to the death we will not move a foot.”不，只要我們活著，就不挪動一步。
?thoughit 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!”假如要我表態(tài)支持理查一邊去阻止我的主上的后嗣繼承權(quán)，上帝明鑒，哪怕要我的命，我也不干！ |