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单词 death rattle
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death rattle
death rattle n. a gurgling sound sometimes heard in the throat of a dying person; also figurative; cf. death-ruckle n., death-ruttle n.
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death rattle1781
death-ruckle1815
death-ruttle1841
1781 J. Murray Welcome to Grave 59 Here the death-rattle stopped his speech.
1821 London Lit. Gaz. 13 Oct. 654/2 Averse as we are to the hysterics, convulsions, and death-rattles of modern competition on the stage, she wanted expression and feeling.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux III. vi. iv. 243 His lips quivered wildly—I heard the death-rattle.
1924 Amer. Mercury Dec. 447/1 The increasingly audible death rattle of the Ku Klux Klan.
1998 C. Mims When we Die (1999) v. 112 The face twitches, breathing becomes difficult and a ‘death rattle’ is occasionally heard.
2008 Independent 8 Dec. 13 Summer's vogue for harlequin prints and Pierrot collars was the last death rattle of frippery.
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