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to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
HSK 3
to die / death
HSK 6
life or death
HSK 7-9
to give up / to admit failure / to drop the matter / to reconcile oneself to loss / to have no more illusions about
HSK 7-9
to be hell-bent on; dead set on sth; unswerving
HSK 7-9
fight to the death / desperate struggle
the dead cannot testify (idiom); dead men tell no tales
mortality rate
jammed / stuck / frozen (computer)
mythological figure (such as the Grim Reaper) in charge of taking the souls of those who die / (fig.) death
to tire oneself out through overwork / to work oneself to death
Damn it! / damned / wretched
the dead / the deceased
extremely / awfully
(medicine) to have an infarction
to deal a single fatal blow / (fig.) to totally repudiate sb because of a minor error
gap in coverage / gap in protection or defenses / neglected or overlooked area / dead end
obstinate / opinionated
casualties / dead and injured
to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
facing death / at death's door
to court death; to take a big risk
to infuriate / to be furious / to die from an excess of anger
to cause death; to be lethal; to be deadly
to die while still relatively young / to have been dead (for some years)
all one's strength / with might and main
to pester someone again and again
arch-enemy / sworn enemy
lit. although dead, also honored; died a glorious death
greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly / clinging abjectly to life / only interested in saving one's neck
to crash (of a computer)
to starve to death / to be very hungry
(idiom) dead end / road to ruin
ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game)
to rise from the dead (idiom); fig. an unexpected recovery
to court disaster / also pr. [zuo1si3]
to die in an accident / to die for a just cause
to kill / to put to death
to throw away one's life
to freeze to death / to die off in winter
time of death / limited to a fixed period of time / fixed term
Portulaca Sundial (a type of plant)
to play dead
death penalty; capital punishment
an execution / to put sb to death
to brave death
(derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard
unwilling to give up / unresigned
to hover between life and death (idiom) / to suffer terribly / within an inch of one's life
mortal enemy / arch-enemy
to die by violence
prisoner that awaits execution / convict sentenced to death / someone on death row
to attempt suicide / to court death
to bend to a task and spare no effort unto one's dying day (idiom); striving to the utmost one's whole life / with every breath in one's body, unto one's dying day
full to the point of bursting / (coll.) at most
to die without a burial site / to die a pauper / a tragic end
necrosis
suicide squad / kamikaze unit
person willing to sacrifice his life (for a good cause)
immortality
dead atmosphere / lifeless / spiritless
stubborn / obstinate / having a one-track mind
brazen faced (idiom); shameless
the critical moment / life and death crisis
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death
tight knot / intractable problem
mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape / to survive by the skin of one's teeth
to die of old age
lit. at whose hand will the deer die (idiom) / fig. who will emerge victorious
to be scared of dying
(idiom) to come back to life (after death)
to help the dying and heal the injured
rather die than submit (idiom)
dead end / blind alley
lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom) / fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation
lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people
matter of life and death
as if drunk or entranced (idiom); leading a befuddled existence / in a drunken stupor
scapegoat / fall guy
(idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment
to follow the path to one's own doom (idiom) / to bring about one's own destruction
deathbed struggle / final struggle (idiom)
deadlock (computing)
fetus dies in the belly / (fig.) plans or projects failed before being carried out
brain death
(idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法) to deploy one's troops in such a way that there is no possibility of retreat, so that they will fight for their lives and win the battle; to fight desperately when confronted with mortal danger; to find a way to emerge from a dire situation
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb / undaunted by perils
victim of an accident / casualty / martyr for one's country
karoshi (loanword from Japanese), death from overwork
ten thousand deaths will not prevent me (idiom); ready to risk life and limb to help out
to feign death / to fake death
to say definitely / to commit (to a proposition)
elixir of life
extinct volcano
euthanasia
blind alley; dead end
life and death are ruled by fate (idiom)
to know no shame / to be totally shameless

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