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to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
HSK 3
to die / death
HSK 6
to give up / to admit failure / to drop the matter / to reconcile oneself to loss / to have no more illusions about
HSK 7-9
life or death
HSK 7-9
to be hell-bent on; dead set on sth; unswerving
HSK 7-9
casualties / dead and injured
to die
death penalty; capital punishment
to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
gap in coverage / gap in protection or defenses / neglected or overlooked area / dead end
to court disaster / also pr. [zuo1 si3]
to block (a road) / to plug (a hole) / to stop up
Damn it! / damned / wretched
mortal enemy / arch-enemy
Portulaca Sundial (a type of plant)
blind alley; dead end
fight to the death / desperate struggle
to infuriate / to be furious / to die from an excess of anger
to say definitely / to commit (to a proposition)
half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc) / (tired) to death / (terrified) out of one's wits / (beaten) to within an inch of one's life / (knock) the daylights out of sb
the dead cannot testify (idiom); dead men tell no tales
the critical moment / life and death crisis
full to the point of bursting / (coll.) at most
mortality rate
immortality
deathly stillness
dead end / (fig.) the road to disaster
deadlock (computing)
from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water / brave / willing to risk life and limb
time of death / limited to a fixed period of time / fixed term
dead piece (in Chess) / stupid move / hopeless case
dead atmosphere / lifeless / spiritless
to learn by rote / to cram
(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
mythological figure (such as the Grim Reaper) in charge of taking the souls of those who die / (fig.) death
as if drunk or entranced (idiom); leading a befuddled existence / in a drunken stupor
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
victim of an accident / casualty / martyr for one's country
lit. not close one's eyes after dying (idiom) / fig. to die with an unresolved grievance
brain death
to die in a foreign land / to die abroad
stagnant water / backwater
necrosis
to play dead
to tire oneself out through overwork / to work oneself to death
to suffer an unjust death
an execution / to put sb to death
to hover between life and death (idiom) / to suffer terribly / within an inch of one's life
to starve to death / to be very hungry
to die or be martyred for a noble cause / to be faithful unto death
euthanasia
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death
extremely / awfully
(medicine) to have an infarction
the dead / the deceased
to deal a single fatal blow / (fig.) to totally repudiate sb because of a minor error
dead end / blind alley
lit. if the rabbit dies, the fox grieves (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress
half dead / more dead than alive
to view death as a return home / to not be afraid of dying / to face death with equanimity (idiom)
mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape / to survive by the skin of one's teeth
jammed / stuck / frozen (computer)
bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb / undaunted by perils
facing death / at death's door
obstinate / opinionated
to crash (of a computer)
to die by violence
to court death; to take a big risk
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
brazen faced (idiom); shameless
to die while still relatively young / to have been dead (for some years)
rather die than submit (idiom)
arch-enemy / sworn enemy
to cause death; to be lethal; to be deadly
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
(idiom) dead end / road to ruin
ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game)
news of sb's death
to rise from the dead (idiom); fig. an unexpected recovery
unwilling to give up / unresigned
lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom) / fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation
to drown
unleavened dough
to die in an accident / to die for a just cause
to freeze to death / to die off in winter
life or death / fate / no matter what / anyway / for the life of me
to brave death
(derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard
suicide squad / kamikaze unit
lit. either the fish dies or the net splits / a life and death struggle (idiom)
stubborn / obstinate / having a one-track mind
tight knot / intractable problem
to follow the path to one's own doom (idiom) / to bring about one's own destruction
to just escape from calamity
lit. at whose hand will the deer die (idiom) / fig. who will emerge victorious
to help the dying and heal the injured
lost letter / letter containing news of sb's death
scapegoat / fall guy
to feign death / to fake death

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