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to die / death
HSK 6
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to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
HSK 3
(of a plant) to wither and die; withered and dead
myocardial infarction / heart attack
to be screwed; to be toast
to be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter (idiom)
stagnant water / backwater
to feign death / to fake death
lit. at whose hand will the deer die (idiom) / fig. who will emerge victorious
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 nail securely / to execute by means of impalement / to crucify
lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me
cannot avoid being killed / cannot escape death / to be mortal
bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb / undaunted by perils
to brave death
to be hell-bent on; dead set on sth; unswerving
HSK 7-9
unwilling to give up / unresigned
news of sb's death
to kill
(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
life or death
HSK 7-9
to hack to death / to kill with an ax
facing death / at death's door
(idiom) to die in battle
best friends / inseparable sidekick / diehard followers
Damn it! / damned / wretched
lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom) / fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich
dying
lethal dose
from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water / brave / willing to risk life and limb
to regard face as all-important / to consider loss of face unthinkable
don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom) / there's more than one way to skin a cat
deadlock (computing)
mortal enemy / arch-enemy
to pledge one's life
(coll.) to pester / to harass
mortality rate
to tire oneself out through overwork / to work oneself to death
to knock down and kill (with a car, train etc)
to risk one's life
mortal
to seek life in death (idiom); to fight for one's life
a pool of stagnant water / stagnant or listless condition
elixir of life
(proverb) constantly comparing oneself to others only leads to dissatisfaction and envy
lit. if the rabbit dies, the fox grieves (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress
to checkmate (in chess) / to be about to die
full to the point of bursting / (coll.) at most
number of people killed / death toll
unknown cause of death
clinical death
to learn by rote / to cram
to kill / to put to death
deathbed struggle / final struggle (idiom)
afraid to die (contemptuous term)
the Dead Sea
(idiom) if you beat the snake without killing it, endless evils will ensue
to suffer an unjust death
a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death
to learn by rote / to mechanically memorize
jammed / stuck / frozen (computer)
to just escape from calamity
to go through hell for the sake of keeping up appearances (idiom)
to freeze to death / to die off in winter
to crush to death
a blind cat finds a dead mouse (idiom) / blind luck
to fight to one's last gasp
mythological figure (such as the Grim Reaper) in charge of taking the souls of those who die / (fig.) death
to court disaster / also pr. [zuo1si3]
rather die than submit (idiom)
hands tied and expecting the worst
dead person / (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen
(neologism c. 2020) (slang) to die of embarrassment (figuratively)
cerebral infarction
serves you right for doing sth so stupid (Internet slang)
(intransitive) to choke to death
Death note (Japanese: デスノート), translation of cult manga series by author ŌBA Tsugumi 大場鶇|大场鸫 (pen-name) and illustrator OBATA Takeshi 小畑健
prisoner that awaits execution / convict sentenced to death / someone on death row
corpse; dead body
to come back to life (after death)
gap in coverage / gap in protection or defenses / neglected or overlooked area / dead end
devil (used jocularly or contemptuously) / the departed
to kill with an explosion
until death puts an end (idiom); one's whole life / unto one's dying day
(idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment
brain death
to help the dying and heal the injured
to die / to drop dead
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
karoshi (loanword from Japanese), death from overwork
lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom) / fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal / to keep going while some hope is left
lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose
suicide squad / kamikaze unit
to crash (of a computer)
to hang (i.e. execute by hanging) / to strangle
to fight bitterly / hard struggle
casualties / dead and injured
to die

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