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词汇 death-wish
释义 death wish
noun[ S ]
uk /ˈdeθ ˌwɪʃ/ us /ˈdeθ ˌwɪʃ/
a desire for death: 死亡愿望;寻死
He takes so many chances that you'd think he had a death wish.冒这样的风险,他简直是去寻死。
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Examples of death wish


death wish
Pete suggests the deathwish idea put forth by the company's research, but the executives reject his idea.
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Age and female gender were also related to death wishes.
Only then can the reader see that the speakers' apparently conventional admiration for her beauty is a deathwish.
Indeed, it is almost as if her misguided actions are the result of a deathwish.
Such a deathwish is still a reflex of life.
Labour must have a deathwish for companies and people.
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This company must have some kind of financial deathwish.
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Some trade union leaders seem to have a deathwish over employment.
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In some cases their attitude has taken on that of a curious deathwish.
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I have a great concern about what appears to be a deathwish by some of those who work in the industry.
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This is sometimes described as the "deathwish".
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It is an uncaring and a destructive society, one cursed with its own deathwish, that treats these matters lightly.
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In practice, short of a collective deathwish, we should have no other choice.
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I know from my own experience when trying to sell a house that to have to notify would be a deathwish.
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It would be wrong to say that it sometimes gives the impression of a deathwish.
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