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词汇 living-death
释义 living death
noun[ S ]
uk /ˌlɪv.ɪŋ ˈdeθ/ us /ˌlɪv.ɪŋ ˈdeθ/
a life that is so full of suffering that it would be better to be dead: 生不如死的生活,活受罪,煎熬
She can't walk or feed herself and she can barely speak - it's a living death.她自己无法走路,也无法吃东西,而且几乎无法说话——真是活受罪啊。
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living death
This is a retreat into the 'theatre within the theatre', into theatricality, invisibility, solitude, unworldliness, emptiness, disembodiment, a livingdeath.
The first is the livingdeath which can arise from chronic bronchitis.
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Employment means life, unemployment means a livingdeath, as medical officers of health have testified and as facts in abundance have shown.
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The poor devil cannot even open his mouth now, because he is dying a livingdeath through the illness he contracted in the pits.
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It is important that the public should know first that drug addiction brings misery and livingdeath—indeed, even death for some.
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Health education is the real remedy, but those of us who falter and fall must be treated as casualties and not left to a livingdeath.
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Stark is forced to confront both his past and a present which has become a livingdeath, in a story of love lost and friendship betrayed.
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She argues that if the disease is seen as a livingdeath by society, both politicians and service providers need not concern themselves with quality.
Alienation is a form of livingdeath.
That is the reality, but it goes further because some people face a livingdeath.
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For me, it seemed to be for many people the difference between life and a livingdeath.
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Huge fortunes have been made out of the labour of these people who are suffering what is but a livingdeath.
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When men suffer from pneumoconiosis, the stage is reached when it becomes a livingdeath.
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They face a long and lingering illness before they die, and they look at it on a livingdeath.
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Unless something is done about the problem, such women will continue to die or face a livingdeath.
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