kill1/kIl; kIl/v 1 [I,T] to make a person or animal die 杀死﹔弄死: He's in jail for killing a policeman. 他因杀死一名警察而入狱。kill yourself She tried to kill herself. 她试图自杀。Smoking kills. 吸烟导致死亡。THESAURUS 同类词murder – to deliberately kill someone 谋杀commit manslaughter – to kill someone without intending to 过失杀人commit suicide – to deliberately cause your own death 自杀assassinate – to deliberately kill an important person, especially a politician 暗杀﹐行刺〔尤指政治家〕slaughter/massacre – to kill a large number of people in a violent way 屠杀execute sb/put sb to death – to kill someone as a punishment for a crime 处决某人2 [T] to make something stop, or prevent it from happening 使停止﹔阻止: They gave her drugs to kill the pain. 他们给了她一些药止痛。3 sb will kill/could have killed sb spoken used to say that someone will be or was very angry with someone【口】某人会/差点要了某人的命〔表示极其愤怒〕: My wife will kill me if she finds out. 我老婆发现的话会要了我的命。4 my head/back etc is killing me spoken used to say that part of your body is hurting a lot【口】我的头/背等痛得要命: I’ve walked miles and my feet are killing me. 我已经走了好几英里﹐脚痛得要命。5 kill time/an hour etcinformal to spend time doing something which is not important while you are waiting for something else to happen【非正式】消磨[打发]时间6 kill two birds with one stone to achieve two things with one action 一石二鸟﹐一箭双雕7 kill yourself laughing to laugh a lot about something 笑得前仰后合kill sb/sth off phr v to stop someone or something from existing any more 使灭绝: Pollution is rapidly killing off the plant life. 污染正在迅速导致植物大量死亡。
kill2n [singular 单数] 1 the act of killing a hunted animal〔对动物的〕捕杀2 move in/close in for the kill to get nearer to killing or defeating someone 逐渐靠近以伺机杀死[击败]: His opponent was moving in for the kill. 他的对手正在逼近准备攻击。