| 词汇 | expire |
| 释义 | expire verb uk /ɪkˈspaɪər/ us /ɪkˈspaɪr/ expireverb (END)C2[ I ] If something that lasts for a fixed length of time expires, it comes to an end or stops being in use: 到期，期满;结束 My passport expires next month.我的护照下个月过期。 The contract between the two companies will expire at the end of the year.两公司之间的合同将在年底到期。 Coming to an end closure cloture come off come to a full stopidiom come to a headidiom end finish line finish up finishing line fizzle out go out (of) the windowidiom head let road run sunset taper taper off the sun sets on somethingidiom wind something up expireverb (DIE)[ I ]literary to die: 死，死亡 He ceased to breathe, gently expiring without any struggle at the age of 90. In 1936 the last Tasmanian tiger breathed its final breath and expired in a zoo in Hobart. to stop living dieMy dog died last week. die a natural/violent deathShe dies a natural death at home, surrounded by loved ones. pass awayHe passed away peacefully in hospital. pass onI'm sorry to hear that your grandfather has passed on. passUSMy father passed last year. Death and dying all-cause mortality antemortem bereave bite bleed out coroner death toll ghost have one foot in the graveidiom macabre perish posthumously raise raise someone from the deadidiom remains roadkill self-extinction sepulchrally snuff itidiom toll expireverb (BREATHE OUT)[ I or T ] medical , biology specialized to breathe out or to breathe air out: The patient inhales as much air as possible and then expires with maximum effort. The device measures the amount of carbon dioxide expired by the patient's lungs. Animal physiology: breathing & stopping breathing aerobic asphyxia asphyxiation aspirate aspiration breathable breathe (something) in choke draw breathphrase huff and puffidiom hyperventilation lungful non-breathing out of breath pant puff puffed puffed out stifle strangulation expire | American Dictionaryexpire verb[ I ] us/ɪkˈspɑɪər/ expireverb[I] (END)(of something that lasts for a fixed length of time) to end or stop being in use: My passport will expire next year. expireverb[I] (DIE)fml to die expire | Business Englishexpire verb[ I ] uk /ɪkˈspaɪər/us to come to an end after a fixed length of time: a contract/lease/licence expires This offer expires on 31 March 2012. set/scheduled/due to expireThe warranty period is due to expire at the end of November. Under current law, the state's earned-income tax credit would expire after this year. FINANCE, STOCK MARKET if an option(= the right to buy or sell particular shares) expires, it can no longer be exercised(= used): The investment options expire on February 5. Examples of expireexpire Therefore, life support measures were withdrawn, and the child expired. Similarly, poi typically burn for approximately four minutes before the flame expires. Contacts, skills and clients diminished, and their ' portfolio careers ' expired. How could they pass the business on to their heirs if, when they ceased trading, the licence for the shop also expired? Strictly speaking, this government is out-of-equilibrium - yet it survived until its term expired five years later. A fact is said to be expired after its expiration interval. Until the benefit period for these projects expires, the government will be forced to continue the subsidies. At 2 weeks, a total of 10 patients had expired. When a policy expires, the insurance company pays out a claim. If, for example, an assistant's contract has expired, he or she cannot take a position as an assistant at another university. The scenes that had cherished them and utilised them were either pushed underground or became extinct as they expired their commercial worth. Without it, the momentum and imperative to continue any ongoing process of disarmament would likely have expired long before 1933, when it did in fact effectively perish. They ensure that, even after the primary patent expires, the patent holder retains the right to be notified by any firm planning to commence generic production of the drug. Once the stipulated five-year period expired, the obvious question to ask was just what did these farmers actually decide regarding their participation in the successor program? Within the first week, 4 patients expired, 1 was changed to parenteral methadone, and 2 were rotated back to morphine because of worsening delirium and analgesic inefficacy. See all examples of expire These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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