living death

living death

美 　英

• n.活受罪；生不如死
• 網絡活死人；活地獄湯劑；雖生猶死

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

na.	1. 活受罪;活地獄

英英解釋

n.	1. a life with no interest or freedom in it, for example because of having a boring job or being in prison

例句

The technology of live bear bile is such a torture: it will not kill the bear, but will render him a pain in the living death.

活熊取膽是這樣一種酷刑：不取黑熊性命，卻能讓它痛苦得生不如死。

He who idles away the time is nothing but a living death .

虛度時光的人如同行尸走肉，一名不值。

This risks the talks drifting into a living death similar to the global trade negotiations.

這樣會使會談有可能陷入與全球貿易談判一樣的兩難境地。

And you and I will both leave this house, this narrow stone hell, this house of living death.

你和我將離開這幢房子，這狹小的石頭地獄，這活死人的宅邸。

He was inflicting on him that frightful living death , that death beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys.

他害他受那種慘酷的活死刑，大家叫做苦牢的那種過露天生活的死刑。

He decried "the cynical youth who looks upon forty as a living death" .

他痛斥那些認為四十歲是行尸走肉的憤青。

Love is a sour delight , a sugar's grief , a living death , an ever- dying life . --T.

愛情是一種酸澀的喜悅、一種甜蜜的痛苦、一種活著的死亡和一種永遠垂死的生命。

Exile was for him a living death.

他遭流放是進了活地獄。

That kind of life is a living death .

那是一種行尸走肉式的生活。

Thank you ever have given me happiness, and now I once again feel the taste of living death.

謝謝你曾帶給我前所未有的幸福，如今我又一次嘗到生不如死的滋味

To living death and pain perpetual;

生不如死，永在痛苦之間！

the living death of captivity

生不如死的囚禁生活