dead 中文

名词 (Noun)PREdé-

(in the singular) Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
1. The dead of night. The dead of winter.

(in the plural) Those who have died.

Have respect for the dead.

动词 (Verb)SGdeadsPRdeadingPT, PPdeaded

(archaic) Formerly, "be dead" was used instead of "have died" as the perfect tense of "die".

(transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.

(transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.

(Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.

形容词 (Adjective)COMdeaderSUPdeadest

(not comparable) No longer living.
1. All of my grandparents are dead. ‎

(hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.

When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.

(of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.

He is dead to me. ‎
I will think of you as dead, until my husband makes you that way. Then I will think of you no longer. - Mary, Rob Roy

Without emotion.

She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea. ‎

Stationary; static.

the dead load on the floor ‎
a dead lift ‎.

Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.

dead air ‎
a dead glass of soda. ‎

Unproductive.

dead time ‎
dead fields ‎

(not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.

OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire. ‎
Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs. ‎

(not comparable) Broken or inoperable.

That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up. ‎

(not comparable) No longer used or required.

There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched. ‎
Is this beer glass dead? ‎

(not comparable, sports) Not in play.

Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead. ‎

(not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.

(not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.

(not comparable) Full and complete.

dead stop ‎
dead sleep ‎
dead giveaway ‎
dead silence ‎

(not comparable) Exact.

dead center ‎
dead aim ‎
a dead eye ‎
a dead level ‎

Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).

After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.

(informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.

"You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, you're dead, mister!" ‎

Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.

a dead floor ‎

(obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.

(law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.

A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead. ‎

(engineering) Not imparting motion or power.

the dead spindle of a lathe ‎

副词 (Adverb)COMdeaderSUPdeadest

(degree) Exactly right.
1. dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
2. He hit the target dead in the centre.

(degree) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.

dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty;

As if dead.

dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still

更多范例

用于句中
- Colin Cameron, a vet who examined the dead animal, said there was "no doubt the kitten would have suffered unnecessarily" before dying.
- The president offered his condolences to the mother of the dead soldier.
- take a pen off the desk ‎; they took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands ‎
用于句首
- Dead is Sansfoy, his vitall paines are past, Though greeved ghost for vengeance deepe do grone: He lives, that shall him pay his dewties last,[*] 440 And guiltie Elfin blood shall sacrifice in hast.
- Dead inflorescences and infructescences are well worth collecting if no fresh material is available or if fresh material is only sufficient for a unicate or one duplicate.
用于句尾
- I need to juice up my phone because the battery's dead.
- Pain is better than numbness, and broken-heartedness better than stony-heartedness, as surely as it is better to be alive than dead.
- When he was lying still on the field, he really had me going. I was afraid he was dead.

Definition of dead in English Dictionary

Meaning of dead for the defined word.