deadness

['dednəs]

n. 死, 死一样的状态, 无生气

n.

1. 死; 死一样的状态

2. 无生气; 无精打采

deadness

词义辨析：

同义参见:

boredom

deadness

名词 deadness:

the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events

同义词：unresponsiveness

the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity

the inanimate property of something that has died

deadness

■"I'm going to take the car tonight, Dad, " he said. "Over my dead body!" his father answered.

"爸，今晚我用一下车子，"他说。"除非我死了！"他父亲答道。

■A living dog is better than a dead lion.

[谚]死狮不如活狗。

■One dead photographer does not do much for the cause he cares about, even if he did feel compelled to weigh in and take sides.

一个摄影记者，即便他认为自己有必要选择立场而支持某一方，一旦他死了，则于他所关心的事业来说也是没有多大帮助的。

■A beggar was lying dead in the snow.

一个死了的乞丐躺在雪地里。

■He was dead beat after a day's work.

一天工作下来,他累垮了。

■The drains are choked (up) with dead leaves.

下水道被枯叶堵住。

■Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them.

乌鸦吃死羊，先要哭一场。

■Alec must have drunk an awful lot. He is lying on his bed, dead to the world.

亚历克一定是太贪杯了，他现在躺在床上睡得像死人一样。

■He is trustworthy and I am dead sure he wouldn't hand me a lemon.

他为人可靠，我确信他不会把坏东西给我。

■They sang a dirge for the dead person.

他们为那个死去的人唱了哀歌。

■They questioned her closely about her friendship with the dead man.

他们仔细查问她与死者的情谊。

■They are dredging for the dead body.

他们在捞尸体。

■They cut away all the dead branches from the tree.

他们把树上的枯枝通通砍掉了。

■He played dead.

他假装死了。

■He could finish up dead or badly injured.

他到头来不是死就是重伤。

■He gave effect to his dead brother's wishes by having his buried properly.

他合适地安葬了他的哥哥，实现了他的愿望。

■His love for you is dead.

他对你的爱情已不复存在。

■He is dead on the rabbit.

他对准那只兔子开枪。

■His criticism on my mistakes is dead on the target.

他对我的错误提出批评，真是一针见血。

■He cut the dead limbs off the tree.

他将树上的枯枝砍去。

■He's been dead and buried for years!

他已死亡并且被埋葬多年了！

■He's been on the beach for weeks and he's dead broken.

他已经失业好几个星期，身无分文。

■He's dead and it's no use wishing him alive again.

他已经死了，希望他再活过来的想法也是枉然。

■He built a chapel as a shrine to the memory of his dead wife.

他建了一座小教堂作为悼念亡妻的圣所。

■He fell dead in his tracks.

他当场死去。

■He was dead to all feelings of shame.

他恬不知耻。

■He did not bestow one thought on his dead father.

他想都没有想过，他过世的父亲。

■He got dead drunk on only two cans of beer.

他才喝了两罐啤酒就烂醉如泥了。

■He's dead set on getting a new job.

他打定主意要找个新工作。

■He sawed the dead branches off.

他把那些枯枝锯掉了。

■His arrival in the capital scotched reports that he was dead.

他抵达首都一事止住了说他已死的传言。

■He's flogging a dead horse in trying to persuade people to use canals instead of roads.

他拼命地劝人不要使用公路而去使用运河，真是枉费口舌。

■He took ill on Thursday, and by Sunday he was dead.

他星期四突然生病，到星期天就死去了。

■He was to all outward appearances dead.

他显然已经死了。

■His mother is in the garden, snipping off the dead roses.

他母亲在花园里，剪下凋谢的玫瑰。

■He spoke his lines utterly dead pan.

他毫无表情地背台词。

■If he carries on driving like that, he'll end up dead.

他照这样开车,早晚得死于非命。

■He saw the apparition of his dead wife.

他看见了亡妻的幽灵。

■He cut away a dead branch.

他砍掉一根枯干的树枝。

■He's dead, as sure as eggs is eggs.

他确实死了。

■Although there was still a faint heartbeat, he was to all intents and purposes dead.

他虽然仍有隐隐心搏，但从身体各方面看已经死亡。

■He was dead asleep.

他酣然大睡。

■A place in which the bodies of persons found dead are kept until identified and claimed or until arrangements for burial have been made.

停尸房保存人的尸体的场所，直到身份被确认并被认领或直至埋葬的安排做好以后

■Don't speak ill of the dead.

别说死者的坏话。

■Twelve passengers are missing, presumed dead.

十二名乘客失踪，据信已经死亡。

■Even if you pay two times the money, you can not expect to possess the building which is now in a dead hand.

即使你出双倍的价钱也不能指望得到那幢建筑，因它现在属于某个社团，不能转让。

■Poor Mr White dropped dead in the street yesterday.

可怜的怀特先生昨天突然死在大街上。

■The act or practice of feeding on dead bodies or carrion.

吃尸吃尸体或尸体腐肉的行为或实践

■Jim intends to make a dead set at winning the tennis prize this year.

吉姆打算今年竭尽全力在网球赛中获奖。

■Oh, no! I do not think I can make delivery before the dead line.

喔，糟了！我想来不及在截止日期前交货了。