| 单词 | kill |
| 释义 | kill I. transitive verb 1. a. < killed by enemy fire > < this poison kills rats > < the accident killed six people > also b. < kills whatever core of human decency he ever had in him — Aldous Huxley > < an industry killed by competition > < an unfavorable report would … kill any chance of getting a license — Wall Street Journal > c. d. (1) (2) of a ship < killed ships and … wounded ships staggering away from battle — Ira Wolfert > e. < the calamitous failure of his plan killed him more than if he had lost all his money > 2. a. < knew he could not kill the evil in the world > < kill the enterprise by denying it the money necessary to proceed > < the censors killed the play after its first week > < killed the engine and got out of the car > < a snack to kill her hunger > < the fire-killing power of the chemical > b. < kill foam in pulp in paper mills > c. < the bill was killed on the first vote > < asked for a transfer but his petition was killed > d. (1) < killed a good part of the article for political reasons > < killed the story as it was written for the late edition > < killed the second act and substituted a new one after the second week > also (2) 3. a. < kill a disease with antibiotics > < killed the pain with drugs > < the heat killed the yeast > < believed that to explain a joke is to kill it > b. < threw an alkali in the solution to kill the acid > c. < kill the seed > d. e. < the addition of the wrong color totally killed the portrait > f. (1) < my feet are killing me > (2) chiefly Irish < got killed in a fight and didn't come to until morning > g. < the heat and the heavy work killed him and he had to lie down for a while > < no use killing ourselves getting to the train — J.P.Marquand > h. < the frantic maneuver killed her speed — Joseph Millard > i. < the stamp was killed with a blue grid — E.R.Guilford > 4. a. < on her first stage appearance she killed the audience > b. slang < his jokes killed me > 5. < ways in which to kill an hour until train time > < kill an entire afternoon over a pot of tea — Lin Yutang > also < reading killed a good deal of time during the trip > 6. a. < kill soap stock by boiling with alkali > < kill fur by means of chemicals in preparation for dyeing > b. c. d. < kill a live electrical circuit > e. 7. 8. 9. a. < killed his drink and held out the glass — W.L.Gresham > b. < killed two bottles of wine over dinner > intransitive verb 1. a. b. < dressed to kill > c. < a killing occupation > 2. Synonyms: < kill a rabbit > < a man killed by a twenty-foot fall > < the drought killed most of the vegetation > < kill a proposal > slay in being a more literary word implies a force and wantonness and a generally more dramatic action < the law which forbade the sinful slaying of a cat — Agnes Repplier > < his hoary tales of how Dion O'Banion was slain in his flower shop — Herman Kogan > < in 1258 the terrible conqueror Hulagu swept over Baghdad and slew the Caliph with 80,000 of the faithful — Times Literary Supplement > murder implies motive and usually premeditation in a criminal human act < murder a wealthy man for his money > < the fear which drove Rome to murder Carthage and Corinth and her own character as well — Herbert Agar > < that theory is murdered by the brutal fact that there are many among the older generation who will not believe — G.W.Johnson > assassinate implies the killing of a person by stealth or treachery, especially of a person in governmental or political power < assassinate a monarch > dispatch in this connection stresses speed and directness in murdering or otherwise putting to death and is usually used intentionally to avoid the violent or odious connotations of the other terms < eight to twelve otters were dispatched before the main herd dispersed — Nature Magazine > < one of his first tasks was to dispatch a sick and dying horse with a sledgehammer — Times Literary Supplement > < then reached up, caught Wright by the coat, drew him down on to him, and at one stab dispatched him — American Guide Series: Louisiana > execute is the term used for putting to death one condemned to death by a legal or quasi-legal process < execute a man convicted of murder > < the mob summarily executed the horse thief > II. 1. a. < an animal moving in for the kill > < indicted a man for a kill in the downtown section of the city > b. < an animal on a kill > c. (1) (2) < the residual kill of DDT > 2. a. < the annual kill of cock pheasants is estimated at 750,000 — American Guide Series: Michigan > b. < a group captain's determination to get maximum kills at his fighter station — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > also c. < guide missiles to the kill — J.J.Haggerty > d. e. 3. 4. 5. • - on the kill III. IV. < killed two penalties > |
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