英汉词典

dead 基本解释

• adj. 无生命的；呆板的；废弃了的
• adv. 完全地
• n. 死者

dead 词态变化

dead 中文词源

来自PIE*dheu, 死，词源同die.

dead 英文词源

dead

dead: [OE] Dead is part of a Germanic family of adjectives (including also German tot, Dutch dood, Swedish död, and Gothic dauths) which come from a prehistoric Germanic adjective *dauthaz. This in turn came from an earlier *dhautós, which was the past participle of the verb base that eventually produced English die (thus etymologically dead is in effect a precursor of died). The word’s ultimate source was Indo- European *dheu-, which some have linked with Greek thánatos ‘dead’.
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dead (adj.)

Old English dead "dead," also "torpid, dull;" of water, "still, standing," from Proto-Germanic *daudaz (cognates: Old Saxon dod, Danish død, Swedish död, Old Frisian dad, Middle Dutch doot, Dutch dood, Old High German tot, German tot, Old Norse dauðr, Gothic dauþs "dead"), from PIE *dhou-toz-, from root *dheu- (3) "to die" (see die (v.)).

Meaning "insensible" is first attested early 13c. Of places, "inactive, dull," from 1580s. Used from 16c. in adjectival sense of "utter, absolute, quite" (as in dead drunk, first attested 1590s; dead heat, 1796). As an adverb, from late 14c. Dead on is 1889, from marksmanship. Dead duck is from 1844. Dead letter is from 1703, used of laws lacking force as well as uncollected mail. Phrase in the dead of the night first recorded 1540s. Dead soldier "emptied liquor bottle" is from 1913 in that form; the image is older.

For but ich haue bote of mi bale I am ded as dorenail (c. 1350).

dead 词组搭配

dead 英文释义

1. people who are no longer living;

"they buried the dead"

2. a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense;

"the dead of winter"

dead 同义词解析

dead, dying

这两个形容词都有"死"之意。

dead： 指已停止呼吸和心脏跳动，与alive(活着的，活的)相对。

dying： 指奄奄一息，行将死亡。

dead 双语例句

1. "Let's invite her to dinner." — "Over my dead body!"

“我们请她来吃晚饭吧。”——“除非我死了！”

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2. 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。

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3. "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。

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4. The deal with Chelsea may not, however, be dead.

不过，与切尔西的交易或许还有戏。

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5. She hadn't followed her instinct and because of this Frank was dead.

她没有听从自己心里的话，弗兰克因此死了。

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dead 实用场景例句

I feel pretty dead right now.

我觉得自己现在几乎快要死了。

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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。

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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。

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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”。

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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。

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You looked half dead after that journey...

经过那趟旅程之后,你看上去真是累坏了。

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He dropped dead on the quayside.

他猝死在码头区。

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Her husband's been dead a year now...

她的丈夫已经去世一年了。

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The group had shot dead another hostage.

该组织又开枪打死了一名人质。

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...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

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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。

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...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

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This made that holiday week a particularly dead period.

这让那一周的假期显得特别沉闷。

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The dead cigarette was still between his fingers...

那支已熄灭的香烟仍在他指间。

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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。

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It's a dead issue, Baxter...

这个问题已经没人再谈论了，巴克斯特。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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'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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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Their arrows are dead on target...

他们的箭正中靶心。

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Meadowhall is also dead easy for people to get to...

去梅多霍尔购物中心也非常方便。

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His poems sound dead boring, actually...

实际上，他的诗听起来非常乏味。

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'Let's invite her to dinner.' — 'Over my dead body!'

“我们请她来吃晚饭吧。”——“除非我死了！”

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I thought the whole business was dead and buried...

我以为这整件事已经完全了结了。

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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。

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