名詞 death:

1. the event of dying or departure from life
   同義詞：decease, expiry
2. the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
3. the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
   同義詞：last
4. the personification of death
5. the absence of life or state of being dead
6. the time when something ends
   同義詞：dying, demise
7. the act of killing
8. a final state
   同義詞：end, destruction

1. That motorbike will be the death of you.
   那輛摩托車就會(huì)要了你的命。
2. That defeat meant the death of all my hopes.
   那次失敗毀滅了我所有的希望。
3. Car accident caused many deaths.
   車禍造成很多人死亡。

death

n.（名詞）
The act of dying; termination of life.
死，死亡：死的動(dòng)作；生命的終結(jié)
The state of being dead.
死亡狀態(tài)
The cause of dying:
死因：
例句：
Drugs were the death of him.
毒品斷送了他的生命

A manner of dying:
死亡的方式：
例句：
a heroine`s death.
英勇的死

Often Death A personification of the destroyer of life, usually represented as a skeleton holding a scythe.
常作 Death 死神：生命的毀滅者的擬人形象，通常是一具手持大鐮刀的骷髏

Bloodshed; murder.
流血；謀殺
Execution.
氣壞，傷透：壓制或激怒（某人）到無法忍耐的程度
Christian Science The product of human belief of life in matter.
【基督教科學(xué)派】 （物質(zhì)的）虛幻：人類對(duì)生命存于物質(zhì)的信仰的產(chǎn)物
Law Civil death.
【法律】 剝奪公民權(quán)終身
The termination or extinction of something:
終止，結(jié)束：
例句：
the death of imperialism.
帝國(guó)主義的滅亡

<習(xí)慣用語>at death`s door
Near to death; gravely ill or injured.
行將就木；重病，重傷
be the death of (someone)
To distress or irritate (someone) to an intolerable degree.
處死
put to death
To execute.
處死
to death
To an intolerable degree; extremely:
到無法容忍的程度；極度地：
例句：
worried to death.
擔(dān)心死了

來源：
Middle English deeth
中古英語 deeth
from Old English dôath * see dheu- 2
源自 古英語 dôath *參見 dheu- 2