Deathbed
['deθbed] or ['dɛθbɛd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the bed on which a person dies.
(noun.) the last few hours before death.
弗朗西斯整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.
乔整理
例句/造句/用法:
- The next day Bessie was sent for home to the deathbed of her little sister. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Some people even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed, and others of the son and the uncle not letting him. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- A copy of his book, teaching that our earth is not the center of the universe, was brought to him on his deathbed, but he never opened it. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I may use the word, for the alley and the gutter were mine, as they will be my deathbed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Your own deathbeds, when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace which you have given to mine. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
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