| 单词 | living death |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliving death living death n. figurative a continuing state of misery neither resulting in death nor deserving the name of life; now frequently hyperbolical. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [noun] > not deserving name of life living deatha1530 death-in-life1577 a1530 T. Lupset Compend. Treat. Dyenge Well (1534) sig. C.iv Synne, that is the lyuynge dethe of the soule. 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 98 That I should liue this liuyng death, Which wastes and neuer weares. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 100 To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried. View more context for this quotation 1904 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. July 278 The cruel fate which had condemned him to the living death of a boundary dog, had not yet wholly..embittered him. 2002 I. Sansom Truth about Babies 248 Routines are a kind of living death: I feel like a man facing a firing squad. < as lemmas |
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