at death's door 的定义
- On the point of dying, very ill, as in Whenever she had a bad cold she acted as though she were at death's door. The association of death with an entry way was first made in English in the late 1300s, and the phrase itself dates from the mid-1500s. Today it is often used as an exaggeration of ill health.
at death's door 近义词
等同于 moribund
等同于 terminally ill
at death's door 的近义词 3 个
等同于 dying
更多at death's door例句
- I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Asia Bibi, as she is known, was arrested and sentenced to death.
- The most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable legal remedy.
- A guard is manning the door, which is always kept ajar so she can be monitored.
- Father Joel Román Salazar died in a car crash in 2013; his death was ruled an accident, but the suspicion of foul play persists.
- Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.
- She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
- She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.
- This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
- Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."