kill
kill 英 [kɪl] 美 [kɪl]
v. 杀死； n. 杀戮
进行时:killing 过去式:killed 过去分词:killed 第三人称单数:kills 名词复数:kills
- To kill is to end the life of some living being or something else. So, you could kill a deer by shooting it with a hunting rifle or kill a bill by voting against it.
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- v. 杀死；
- n. 杀戮
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1. Cancer kills thousands of people every year.
每年数以千计的人死于癌症。
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2. He tried to kill himself with sleeping pills.
他试图服安眠药自杀。
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3. to kill a rumour
平息谣言
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4. My feet are killing me.
我的脚痛死了。
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5. A cat often plays with a mouse before the kill.
猫在咬死老鼠之前常常要耍弄它一番。
- kill (n.1) early 13c., "a stroke, a blow," from kill (v.). Meaning "the act of killing" is from 1814 in hunting slang; that of "a killed animal" is from 1878. Lawn tennis serve sense is from 1903. The kill "the knockout" is boxing jargon, 1950. Kill ratio is from 1968, American English.
- kill (n.2) "stream, creek," 1630s, American English, from Dutch kil "a channel," from Middle Dutch kille "riverbed, inlet." The word is preserved in place names in the Mid-Atlantic American states (such as Schuylkill, Catskill, Fresh Kills, etc.). A common Germanic word, the Old Norse form, kill, meant "bay, gulf" and gave its name to Kiel Fjord on the Baltic coast and thence to Kiel, the German port city founded there in 1240.
- kill (v.) c. 1200, "to strike, hit, beat, knock;" c. 1300, "to deprive of life, put to death;" perhaps from an unrecorded variant of Old English cwellan "to kill, murder, execute," from Proto-Germanic *kwaljanan (source also of Old English cwelan "to die," cwalu "violent death;" Old Saxon quellian "to torture, kill;" Old Norse kvelja "to torment;" Middle Dutch quelen "to vex, tease, torment;" Old High German quellan "to suffer pain," German quälen "to torment, torture"), from PIE root *gwele- "to throw, reach," with extended sense "to pierce." Related: Killed; killing.
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