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kill1 /kɪl/ ●●● S1 W1 verb
1  make SB/STH die 使某人/某物死亡 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]KILL to make a person or animal die 弄死，殺死
Why did she kill her husband?
她爲什麽殺死丈夫？
Murray held a gun to his head and threatened to kill him.
默裏拿槍指着他的頭並威脅要殺了他。
Four people were killed when a train plunged into a flooded river.
火車沖進洪水泛濫的河中，造成四人身亡。
be killed instantly/outright (=immediately) 立即死亡，即刻死去
The driver was killed instantly.
司機當場死亡。
Bleach kills household germs.
漂白劑能夠殺滅日常病菌。
Smoking kills.
吸煙會致人死亡。
2  kill yourself 
a) to cause your own death 殺死自己，自殺
You’re going to kill yourself on that bike.
你騎那輛自行車會送命的。
After her husband died, Mary tried to kill herself.
丈夫去世後，瑪麗曾試圖自殺。
b) to work very hard to achieve something, in a way that makes you ill or tired 〔工作過分努力而〕累壞身體
It’s not worth killing yourself over it.
爲了它累壞身體不值得。
kill yourself to do something
He about killed himself to make the business go.
爲了維持生意，他幾乎把身體累垮了。
Examples from the Corpus
kill yourself to do something• Jonas bribes Slyme to let him kill himself to cheat the gallows.• But he was killing himself to do it, Emily felt; his terrible headaches proved as much.• The Incas killed each other to ensure a supply of human blood as sacrificial fertiliser for their potato planting rites.• He's spent the past two years killing himself to make the business go.• They will kill themselves to park.
3  make STH stop/fail 使某事停止/失敗 [transitiveT]STOP something THAT IS HAPPENING to make something stop operating or fail 使停止；使失敗；使關閉
Joe pulled in and killed the engine.
喬把車靠到路邊停下，關閉了引擎。
The out-of-town shopping centre will kill local trade.
城外的購物中心將令本地商業難以爲繼。
kill your speed (=drive slowly) 減速行駛
4  be angry with SB 對某人發火 [transitiveT] informalANGRY to be very angry with someone 對〔某人〕大發雷霆
Mom will kill me if I’m late.
我要是晚了，媽媽會大發脾氣的。
5  annoyed/sad 惱火的/傷心的 [transitiveT]TIREDSAD/UNHAPPY to make someone feel annoyed, sad, concerned etc 使生氣[傷心，擔心等]
it kills somebody to do something
It kills me to see him working so hard.
看到他這麽拼命工作，我擔心得要命。
What happened next? The suspense is killing me.
接下來發生了什麽？這一懸念真是要了我的命。
6  would/could kill for something  (also would kill to do something) to want something so much that you will do almost anything to get it or do it 願不惜一切得到某物，極想要某物
I could kill for a smoke right now.
現在我非常想吸口煙。
In those days, actors would kill to break into film.
那時候，演員都拼命想擠入電影界。
Examples from the Corpus
would/could kill for something• But Katrinka is sustained by her search for her long-lost son, and a wardrobe a Vegas showgirl could kill for.• I could kill for him, easily and without thought.• Some of the lasses would kill for tab-ends and that.• Most retailers would kill for that kind of performance.
7  my head/back etc is killing me spokenPAIN used to say that a part of your body is hurting a lot 我的頭/背等痛得要命
I’ve walked miles and my feet are killing me.
我走了很遠的路，腳痛得要命。
8  kill time/an hour etc SPEND TIMEto spend time doing something which is not important, while you are waiting to do something important or waiting for something else to happen 消磨時光，打發時間
With time to kill, he took a cab to the centre.
還有點時間可以消磨，於是他叫了一輛出租車去市中心。
9  kill a beer/bottle of wine etc spoken to drink or finish drinking a beer etc quickly 一口喝下啤酒/一瓶葡萄酒等
Let’s kill these beers and go.
我們一口幹了啤酒就走吧。
10  make SB laugh 使某人發笑 [transitiveT]FUNNY to make someone laugh a lot 使〔某人〕笑得前仰後合
kill yourself laughing
They weren’t bothered – in fact, they were killing themselves laughing.
他們並不在意，事實上他們簡直笑破了肚皮。
11  it won’t/wouldn’t kill somebody (to do something) spoken used to say that someone could easily do something, and ought to do it (做某事)又不會要了某人的命〔因此應該去做〕
It wouldn’t kill you to help out once in a while.
偶爾幫别人一把又不會要了你的命。
Examples from the Corpus
it won’t/wouldn’t kill somebody (to do something)• It wouldn't kill you to do the dishes.
12  (even) if it kills me spoken used to emphasize that you are determined to do something, even though it is very difficult 哪怕困難重重
I’m completing this course, even if it kills me.
哪怕再難，我也要完成這門課程。
Examples from the Corpus
(even) if it kills me• I'm going to finish this even if it kills me.
13. kill two birds with one stone DOto achieve two things with one action 一石二鳥，一舉兩得，一箭雙雕
Examples from the Corpus
kill two birds with one stone• Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.• By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.• Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.• Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.• Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.• Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.• In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
14. kill the goose that lays the golden egg to destroy the thing that brings you profit or success 殺雞取卵，竭澤而漁
Examples from the Corpus
kill the goose that lays the golden egg• High taxes kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
15. kill the fatted calf CELEBRATEto welcome someone home with a big meal etc after they have been away for a long time 盛宴款待〔長期離家歸來的人〕
16. kill somebody with kindness to be too kind to someone, in a way that actually harms them 溺愛某人，寵壞某人
Examples from the Corpus
kill somebody with kindness• Enormous helpings to kill you with kindness.• He'd kill me with kindness.• They killed him with kindness, and it didn't do Blackburn much good either.
17. kill or cure used to say that something you are going to do will be either successful or fail completely 不是一舉成功，就是一敗塗地；成敗在此一舉
Examples from the Corpus
kill or cure• The spring Budget, therefore, will be kill or cure.
18 kill something ↔ off phrasal verbphr v 
a) KILLto cause the death of a lot of living things 使〔生物〕大量死亡；使滅絕 SYN destroy
Pollution is rapidly killing off plant life.
污染導致大量植物迅速死亡。
b) to stop or remove something completely 使〔某事〕徹底停止；根除〔某物〕 SYN destroy
These figures kill off any hope that the economy is poised for recovery.
這些數據徹底粉碎了經濟複蘇的希望。
Examples from the Corpus
kill off• A goal here would have killed Blackburn off.• In order to protect her, my grandmother killed her daughter off.• Most of his comrades had been killed or bought off.• So am I sorry that David Owen has killed it off?• Swindon knew they needed another to kill Oxford off.• The Avalanche had a five-minute power play but the Bruins did a fine job killing it off, allowing just three shots.• With amateurs there's no point in paying, they're likely to kill the victim off anyway, out of fear.• Stupid kids get killed falling off the Palisades trying to sneak into the park through a hole in the Cyclone fence.
→ dressed to kill at dressed(3)
 THESAURUS
kill to make someone die 弄死，殺死
The driver and his passenger were killed in the crash.
司機和乘客都在車禍中喪命了。
He was killed by rival gang members.
他被敵對幫派成員殺死了。
murder to deliberately kill someone – used when talking about this as a crime 〔作爲犯罪〕謀殺
He was convicted of murdering his wife.
他被判殺妻罪。
commit manslaughter to kill someone without intending to – used when talking about this as a crime 犯過失殺人罪，犯誤殺罪
The court ruled that the guard had committed manslaughter.
法院裁定警衛過失殺人。
assassinate to deliberately kill an important person, especially a politician 暗殺，行刺〔重要人物，尤指政治人物〕
He was part of a plot to assassinate Hitler.
他參與了暗殺希特勒的密謀。
slay to kill someone or something in a violent way – used in newspaper reports and also in old stories 殘害，殘殺〔用於新聞報道或故事傳說〕
Two teenagers were slain in the shootings.
兩名少年在槍擊中遇害。
St. George slew the dragon.
聖喬治殺死了那條龍。
nThe king was slain at the battle of Hastings.
execute formal (also put somebody to death) to kill someone as a punishment for a crime 處決，處死
McVeigh, who killed 168 people in a bombing attack, was executed by lethal injection.
制造炸彈襲擊導致168人死亡的麥克維被處以注射死刑。
eliminate to kill someone in order to prevent them from causing trouble 消滅，清除
a ruthless dictator who eliminated all his rivals
除掉所有敵對者的殘酷獨裁者
take somebody out informal to kill someone in order to get rid of them, especially an enemy or someone who is causing trouble for you 除掉，幹掉
US forces used air strikes to take out the enemy positions.
美軍采用空襲來端掉敵軍據點。
One of the other drug dealers may have decided to take him out.
可能是其他毒販中有人決定幹掉他。
bump somebody off humorous informal to kill someone 幹掉，除掉
He was so irritating I felt like bumping him off myself.
他太討厭了，我真想親手把他解決掉。
do away with somebody informal to kill someone 幹掉，除掉
nThe settlers in Jamestown had been done away with, but no one knew how.
to kill yourself 自殺
commit suicide to kill yourself 自殺
He committed suicide after the death of his girlfriend.
女朋友死後他自殺了。
take your own life formal to kill yourself 自殺，結束自己的生命
He had taken his own life while he was severely depressed.
他因極度消沉而自殺了。
They believe that it is a sin to take your own life.
他們認爲自殺是一種罪過。
to kill a large number of people 殺死許多人
massacre to kill a large number of people in a violent way 屠殺，〔大規模〕殺戮
Thousands of peaceful demonstrators were massacred by the soldiers.
成千上萬名和平示威者遭士兵屠殺。
slaughter to kill a large number of people in a violent way. Slaughter is also used about killing animals for food 屠殺〔人〕；屠宰〔動物〕
The army slaughtered thousands of civilians in an effort to stop the revolt.
軍隊爲鎮壓暴亂而屠殺了成千上萬的平民。
The pigs were slaughtered on the farm.
這些豬在養豬場被屠宰。
exterminate to kill large numbers of a particular group, so that they no longer exist 滅絕，根除〔某一群體〕
Hitler’s goal was to exterminate the Jews.
希特勒的目標是消滅猶太人。
Examples from the Corpus
kill• The gunman killed 22 people and wounded 15, before turning his gun on himself.• The explosion killed 32 people.• Many people do not realize that these drugs are dangerous and can kill.• Smoking kills.• He told Creon that Thebes would be save only if Menoeceus was killed.• He was capable of killing a man with his bare hands.• The police believe the man may kill again.• During his address, some shots were fired, two men were killed, and several wounded.• Is it morally acceptable to kill animals for food?• My sixteen-year-old son Louis was killed by a drunk driver two years ago.• I thought he had been in a car accident that had killed everyone else.• On May 3,1885, police fired into a crowd of strikers in Chicago, wounding many and killing four.• Noland is accused of killing her stepfather.• He claims that he didn't mean to kill his wife.• James Dean was killed in a car crash in 1955.• Official sources say that 20 people were killed in last night's air raids.• Carrie will kill me if I forget her birthday.• Alan wore a dress to the party? That kills me!• They've tried to kill me.• The disease has already killed more than 2000 in Latin America.• Mr Howard released a statement in an effort to kill speculation in the press.• Quick! Kill the lights.• Some one possessing special strength or skill attacks and kills the monster or drives him away.• Could you give me something to kill the pain?• Losing funding now would kill the project.• A car drove onto the pavement, killing three of Mrs Maguire's children.• I was early, so I sat in a café, killing time.• The second Returner had killed two men, and had also been destroyed in the process before full analysis could commence.
be killed instantly/outright• Both the Prince and his wife were killed instantly.• Park and Sheena were killed instantly.• The aeroplane crashed and your brother was killed instantly.• The only consolation, I think she was killed instantly.• The boy was killed instantly and Ballantine was seen later crying a few yards away from his body.• Nadine was killed instantly and Deanne died in hospital four hours later.• He was killed instantly, and two others were wounded.• A total of 210 people were killed outright by the soldiers, another seventy-one died later and 173 were less seriously wounded.
it kills somebody to do something• I mean, it kills me to think of them.
kill2 noun
1  KILL[countableC usually singular] the act of killing a hunted animal 殺死，捕殺〔動物〕
He raised his knife for the kill.
他舉起刀子準備宰殺。
2  move in/close in for the kill CATCHto come closer to something in order to kill, defeat, or destroy it 逐漸靠近以伺機殺死[擊敗，摧毀]
Enemy submarines were moving in for the kill.
敵人的潛艇正靠近目標準備攻擊。
3  [singular]KILL an animal that is killed by another animal 〔被其他動物殺死的獵獲物
The cubs will share the remains of the kill.
幼獸將分享獵物被吃剩的部分。
Examples from the Corpus
kill• The snakes are sometimes hard to find, so the Webers never miss a chance to make a kill.• Shoot only if you are confident of a kill.• The winning point came on a kill by Amy Earle.• This was his fourth patrol of the day and only his first kill of the week.• That lasted only a few seconds; then the leopard got a good hold on its kill.• But you can never effect a total kill.• In 1963, too, the sperm-whale kill reached its peak, claiming about thirty thousand of the great beasts.
From Longman Business Dictionary
killkill /kɪl/ verb [transitiveT]
if someone kills an idea, product etc, they decide to stop developing it, selling it etc
They have killed plans for a weekly regional magazine in Los Angeles.
→ see also fill or kill
Origin kill1
(1200-1300) Probably from an unrecorded Old English cyllan

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