| 单词 | 致死 |
| 释义 | 〔fatal〕a lethal dose of barbiturates. 巴比妥酸盐的致死药量 〔deadly〕Causing or tending to cause death:致命的，致死的：导致死亡的或有可能导致死亡的：〔mortal〕Causing death; fatal:致死的；致命的：〔fatally〕So as to cause death; mortally:致死地：引起死亡地；致命地：〔burn〕To suffer punishment or death by or as if by fire:受煎熬：通过火或其他类似的东西来惩罚或致死：〔killing〕Intended or apt to kill; fatal.致死的：倾向或易于杀死；致命的〔Bran〕A gigantic Celtic god and ruler of Britain. After he was mortally wounded in battle, his head was buried in London, where it served as a protection against invaders.布兰：似巨人般的凯尔特人的上帝和不列颠统治者。在战斗中因伤致死后，他的头被埋葬在伦敦，以作为一种反对侵略者的保护力量〔deathly〕Causing death; fatal.致死的；致命的〔Jackson〕American Confederate general who commanded troops at both battles of Bull Run (1861 and 1862) and directed the Shenandoah Valley campaign (1862). He was accidentally killed by his own troops at Chancellorsville (1863).杰克逊，托马斯·约拿单：(1824-1863) 南北战争中南军的将军，指挥在1861年和1862年的两次布尔溪战役，并于1862年指挥了谢南多厄河谷之战。他于1863年被自己的部队在钱瑟勒斯维尔误杀致死〔pestilent〕Tending to cause death; deadly.致命的；致死的：易引起死亡的；致命的〔internecine〕In the first edition of theAmerican Heritage Dictionary 91 percent of the Usage Panel approved the use ofinternecine relating to internal struggle within a nation or organization that did not necessarily imply fatal or destructive conflict.The objection that had been overcome for most of the Panel was thatinternecine should imply such destruction because it came from the Latin wordinternecīnus, a variant ofinternecīvus, "fought to the death, murderous,” ultimately derived fromnecāre, "to kill.” Inter- in this compound is simply an intensive, supplying the notion of "all the way to" in the sense "fought to the death.”Internecine in English, first recorded in 1663, indeed meant "deadly, destructive,”but Samuel Johnson, inserting the word in his dictionary of 1755,thought thatinter- meant "mutual" and so defined it as "endeavoring mutual destruction.”This definition set the word incorrectly on its present course,and wheninternecine was further extended simply to mean "relating to internal struggle,” the original error was compounded.However, the point is that the meaning of words can be changed by mistakes and that mistaken meanings adhere to words.Only an occasional etymologist points out that the emperor's new clothes are patched.在美国经典辞书 第一版中， 百分之九十一的用法专题使用小组成员赞同internecine 与一个国家或组织内部的斗争有关， 但并不一定是致命的或有破坏性的冲突。为大多数小组成员说服的反对意见为internecine 应该暗指这种破坏， 因为它来源于拉丁词internecinus ， 是internecivus 的变体，意为“战至死亡的，谋杀的”， 它最终来源于意为“杀害”的necare 。 在这个复合词中inter- 只是简单的一个强调成分， 在“战至死亡的”这个意义上加上“一直”这个概念。在英语中internecine 最早记载于1663年， 确实意味着“致死的，破坏性的”，但是塞缪尔·约翰逊在其1755年的字典中插入此词，认为inter- 意为“共同的”， 并且将它定义为“竭力造成共同破坏的”。这个定义造成此词今日用法的不准确，而且当internecine 更进一步被简单地引申为“关于内部斗争的”时， 其起源的错误就加重了。但是，重要的是词的意思被错误改变并且为错误意思所追随。只有偶尔的一个词源学家指出“皇帝的新衣服打满补丁”〔lethal〕Capable of causing death.致死的，会致死的：能导致死亡的 |
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