dead, dying

dead, deadly

• he is dead.
  他死了。
• i found a dog howling over the dead body.
  我看到有條狗對著死尸嚎叫。
• the baby was born dead.
  嬰孩一生下來就死了。
• he was dead drunk in the new year eve party.
  他在除夕晚會上喝得爛醉如泥。
• i'm dead tired!
  我累極了！

• be careful!this is a deadly poison.
  小心！這是致命的毒藥。
• he is our deadly enemy.
  他是我們的死敵。
• his face turned deadly pale.
  他的臉色變得非?；野?。
• the show is deadly boring.
  那場表演非常沉悶。

名詞 dead:

1. people who are no longer living
2. a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

形容詞 dead:

1. no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
2. not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
3. very tired
   同義詞：all in, beat, bushed
4. unerringly accurate
5. physically inactive
6. total
   同義詞：utter
7. not endowed with life
   同義詞：inanimate, nonliving, non-living
8. (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
   同義詞：numb
9. devoid of physical sensation; numb
   同義詞：deadened
10. lacking acoustic resonance
11. not yielding a return
    同義詞：idle
12. not circulating or flowing
    同義詞：stagnant
13. out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
14. not surviving in active use
15. lacking resilience or bounce
16. no longer in force or use; inactive
    同義詞：defunct
17. no longer having force or relevance
18. sudden and complete
19. drained of electric charge; discharged
    同義詞：drained
20. lacking animation or excitement or activity
    同義詞：lifeless
21. devoid of activity

副詞 dead:

1. quickly and without warning
   同義詞：abruptly, suddenly, short
2. completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
   同義詞：absolutely, perfectly, utterly

1. Many people say that detente is now a dead letter.
   很多人說緩和國際緊張局勢的論調(diào)已是明日黃花。
2. It fell with a dead thud.
   它砰的一聲倒了下來。
3. She's a dead ringer for a girl I used to know.
   她酷似以前我認識的一個女孩。
4. He's dead set on getting a new job.
   他打定主意要找個新工作。
5. It lay there with its eyes closed, dead as a doornail.
   它躺在那里眼睛閉著，確實死了。
6. He was dead asleep.
   他酣然大睡。
7. His love for you is dead.
   他對你的愛情已不復存在。

dead

adj.（形容詞）
dead.er,dead.est
Having lost life; no longer alive.
死亡的：喪失了生命的；不再活著的
Marked for certain death; doomed:
宣告死亡的；注定要死的：
例句：
was marked as a dead man by the assassin.
被暗殺而喪生

Having the physical appearance of death:
具有死亡的身體外觀的：
例句：
a dead pallor.
毫無血色的蒼白

Lacking feeling or sensitivity; numb or unresponsive:
沒感覺的：缺乏感覺或反應能力的；麻木的或不反應的：
例句：
Passersby were dead to our pleas for help.
路過的人不理睬我們的呼救

Weary and worn-out; exhausted.
疲倦的：疲倦的和筋疲力盡的；疲憊的

Not having the capacity to live; inanimate or inert.
無生命的：沒有生存能力的；無生命的或不活潑的
Not having the capacity to produce or sustain life; barren:
貧瘠的：沒有能力生產(chǎn)或不能維持生命的；貧瘠的：
例句：
dead soil.
貧瘠的土地

No longer in existence, use, or operation.
消失的，靜止的：不再存在、使用或運轉(zhuǎn)的
No longer having significance or relevance.
不再重要的，不再關(guān)聯(lián)的
Physically inactive; dormant:
不再活動的；休眠的：
例句：
a dead volcano.
死火山

Not commercially productive; idle:
閑置的：缺乏商業(yè)上活力的；閑置不用的：
例句：
dead capital.
閑置的資金

Not circulating or running; stagnant:
不流通的：不流通的或不流動的；停滯的：
例句：
dead water; dead air.
死水；不流通的空氣

Devoid of human or vehicular activity; quiet:
罕有人跡的：沒有人類或交通工具活動的；安靜的：
例句：
a dead town.
罕有人跡的城鎮(zhèn)

Lacking all animation, excitement, or activity; dull:
沉悶的：缺乏充分活力、熱情或活動的；乏味的：
例句：
The party being dead, we left early.
由于聚會過于沉悶，我們很早就離開了

Having no resonance. Used of sounds:
無雜音的：沒有共振的。用于聲音：
例句：
.One characteristic of compact discs we all can hear is dead sound. It may be pure but it has no life.(Musical Heritage Review)
.激光唱片的特點之一就是音質(zhì)純凈。雖然沒有雜音，但是缺乏生命力.(音樂精品回顧)

Having grown cold; having been extinguished:
冷卻的，熄滅的：變得冷的；已經(jīng)熄滅的：
例句：
dead coals; a dead flame.
冷卻的煤炭；熄滅的火焰

Lacking elasticity or bounce:
缺乏彈性或反彈的：
例句：
That tennis ball is dead.
這個網(wǎng)球沒彈力了

Out of operation because of a fault or breakdown:
失靈的，出故障的：由于錯誤或損壞而不能正常使用的：
例句：
The motor is dead.
汽車熄火了

Sudden; abrupt:
突然的；冒失的：
例句：
a dead stop.
突然停住

Complete; utter:
完全的；徹底的：
例句：
dead silence.
死靜

Exact; unerring.
正確的；無錯誤的
Sports Out of play. Used of a ball.
【體育運動】 死球的。用來指球

Lacking connection to a source of electric current.
沒有接上電源的
Drained of electric charge; discharged:
電力用完的；放電的：
例句：
a dead battery.
電力用完的電池

n.（名詞）
One who has died:
死者：
例句：
respect for the dead.
對死者的尊重

The period exhibiting the greatest degree of intensity:
最高階段，最強階段：程度最高或強度最強的階段：
例句：
the dead of winter; the dead of night.
隆冬；深夜

adv.（副詞）
Absolutely; altogether:
絕對地；完全地：
例句：
You can be dead sure of my innocence.
你絕對可以相信我是無辜的

Directly; exactly:
直接地；確切地：
例句：
There`s a gas station dead ahead.
就在前面有一個加油站

Suddenly:
突然地：
例句：
She stopped dead on the stairway.
她突然在樓梯上停住了

<習慣用語>dead and buried
No longer in use or under consideration:
不再使用的，不在考慮的：
例句：
All past animosities are dead and buried now.
過去的所有仇恨現(xiàn)在都不考慮而且一筆勾銷了

dead in the water
Unable to function or move:
不能起作用的，不能移動的：
例句：
The crippled ship was dead in the water. With no leadership, the project was dead in the water.
那只壞船停滯在水中不能動了。沒有了領(lǐng)導，計劃不能實施

dead to rights
In the very act of making an error or committing a crime:
現(xiàn)場作案的：正在犯錯誤或犯罪的那一時候：
例句：
The police caught the thief dead to rights with my silverware.
警察抓住了正在偷我銀器的小偷

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

【引伸】
dead.ness
n.（名詞）
<參考詞匯><同義詞>dead,deceased,departed,extinct,lifeless,inanimateThese adjectives all mean without life.
這些形容詞均表示無生命的。
Dead, which has the widest use, applies in general to whatever once had—but no longer has—physical life (
Dead 用得最廣，一般適用于前面所述的——但是現(xiàn)在不再有的——生命(
例句：
a dead man; a dead leaf), function (The battery is dead ), or force or currency (
死者；

例句：
a dead issue; a dead language).
枯葉)， 功能(電池沒電了 )， 或力量、流通(

Deceased —likedeparted, which is a euphemistic term—refers only to nonliving human beings:
不再流通的文件；
attended a memorial service for a recently deceased friend;

例句：
不用的語言)。

.shedding funereal tears over his departed dog. (Ben Jonson).
Deceased ——象departed ，委婉的語言——僅指死者：
例句：
參加一最近逝世朋友的悼念儀式；

Extinct can refer to what has no living successors (
.在他的狗的葬禮上落淚. （本·瓊森）。
The dodo is extinct) or to what is extinguished or inactive (

Extinct 可指沒有繼承者的(
例句：
渡渡鳥絕種了) 或滅絕的或不活動的(

例句：
an extinct volcano).
死火山)。

Lifeless applies to what no longer has physical life (
Lifeless 意被不再有生命的(
例句：
a lifeless body), to what does not support life (
死尸)， 不能維持生命(

例句：
a lifeless planet), and to what lacks animation, spirit, or brightness (
無生命的行星)， 和缺乏生氣、精神或歡樂的(

例句：
a lifeless performance of the sonata; lifeless colors).
奏鳴曲乏味的演出；

Inanimate is most often limited to what has never had physical life:
無生機的顏色)。
.He then fell, like an inanimate log, to the earth. (James Fenimore Cooper).

Inanimate 常常僅限于沒有生命的：
例句：
.然后他像一條死狗一樣，倒在了地上. （詹姆斯·費尼莫爾·庫珀）