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OXF3000D: chết dead tot
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jemanden töten ☊ giết ai ☊ ☊
der Tote ☊ người chết ☊ ☊
stottern ☊ nói lắp, nói ấp úng ☊ ☊
jemanden töten ☊ 杀死某人 ☊ shā sǐ mǒu rén
Tote ☊ 死者 ☊ sǐ zhě
stottern ☊ 结巴, 口吃 ☊ jiéba, kǒuchī
Gab es viele Tote? ☊ Có nhiều người chết không? ☊ (Lektion 72, Nr. 1036)
a fatal accident (= in which sb is killed) ☊ accident ☊
Chlorine is added to the water to kill bacteria. ☊ add ☊
We don't know whether he's alive or dead. ☊ alive ☊
To all appearances (= as far as people could tell) he was dead. ☊ appearance ☊
to be killed in battle ☊ battle ☊
He was killed in the war. ☊ be ☊
She believes that killing animals for food or fur is completely immoral. ☊ believe ☊
Our immune systems are killing billions of germs right now. ☊ billion ☊
A police officer was killed when his car blew up. ☊ blow up ☊
He was killed by a bullet in the head. ☊ bullet ☊
burn (sb/sth): to burn waste paper/dead leaves ☊ burn ☊
Their ambitions were finally dead and buried. ☊ bury ☊
When installing electrical equipment don't take any chances. A mistake could kill. ☊ chance ☊
No one can predict with complete/total confidence what will happen in the financial markets. ☊ confidence ☊
This pesticide kills insects on contact (= as soon as it touches them). ☊ contact ☊
The number of car accident deaths is continuing to decline. ☊ continue ☊
A girl was killed yesterday in a crash involving a stolen car. ☊ crash ☊
The hard disk is dead. ☊ dead ☊
Suddenly the phone went dead. ☊ dead ☊
Is the Western a dead art form? ☊ dead ☊
a dead language (= one that is no longer spoken, for example Latin) ☊ dead ☊
Many believe the peace plan is dead. ☊ dead ☊
Unfortunately racism is not yet dead. ☊ dead ☊
Though the idea may be dead, it is far from being buried (= people still talk about it, even though there is nothing new to say). ☊ dead ☊
My mother's dead; she died in 1987. ☊ dead ☊
a dead person/animal ☊ dead ☊
dead leaves/wood/skin ☊ dead ☊
He dropped dead (= died suddenly) last week. ☊ dead ☊
The poor child looks more dead than alive. ☊ dead ☊
In ten years he'll be dead and buried as a politician. ☊ dead ☊
He's drinking himself to death (= so that it will kill him). ☊ death ☊
a death camp (= a place where prisoners are killed, usually in a war) ☊ death ☊
The play's first night was a total disaster. ☊ disaster ☊
discover sb/sth + adj.: She was discovered dead at her home in Leeds. ☊ discover ☊
English law clearly distinguishes between murder and manslaughter. ☊ distinguish ☊
encounter (with sb/sth): Three of them were killed in the subsequent encounter with the police. ☊ encounter ☊
Birds are the natural enemies of many insect pests (= they kill them). ☊ enemy ☊
At least 5 000 people were killed, and that's a conservative estimate (= the real figure will be higher). ☊ estimate ☊
The room fell silent as she came face to face with the man who had tried to kill her. ☊ face to face (with sb) ☊
The whole thing was a complete failure. ☊ failure ☊
She was killed in a fall from a horse. ☊ fall ☊
I had to run away for fear (that) he might one day kill me. ☊ for fear of sth/of doing sth, for fear (that)... ☊
fear sth: She has been missing for three days now and police are beginning to fear the worst (= think that she is dead). ☊ fear ☊
fear sb/sth + adj.: Hundreds of people are feared dead. ☊ fear ☊
fear (that)...: She feared (that) he might be dead. ☊ fear ☊
feel like sth: I felt like a complete idiot. ☊ feel ☊
I'm absolutely frozen! ☊ frozen ☊
It's cruel to make fun of people who stammer. ☊ make fun of sb/sth ☊
a fur farm (= where animals are bred and killed for their fur) ☊ fur ☊
coalition/communist/democratic/totalitarian, etc. government ☊ government ☊
He killed the snake with his bare hands (= using only his hands). ☊ hand ☊
Human remains (= the body of a dead person) were found inside the house. ☊ human ☊
hunt sth: Whales are still being hunted and killed in the Arctic. ☊ hunt ☊
Thousands of innocent civilians have been killed in this conflict. ☊ innocent ☊
Cancer kills thousands of people every year. ☊ kill ☊
Don't kill yourself trying to get the work done by tomorrow. It can wait. ☊ kill ☊
Why study Latin? It's a dead language (= no longer spoken by anyone). ☊ language ☊
the dead leaves of autumn/the fall ☊ leaf ☊
My grandfather lost his life (= was killed) in the war. ☊ life ☊
Several attempts have been made on the President's life (= several people have tried to kill him). ☊ life ☊
I was talking to John when the line suddenly went dead. ☊ line ☊
They lost both their sons (= they were killed) in the war. ☊ lose ☊
Many people lost their lives (= were killed). ☊ lose ☊
We're completely lost. ☊ lost ☊
lucky (to do sth): His friend was killed and he knows he is lucky to be alive. ☊ lucky ☊
She seemed to have gone stark raving mad. ☊ mad ☊
She's completely power-mad. ☊ mad ☊
After mating, the female kills the male. ☊ mate ☊
He was reported missing, presumed dead. ☊ missing ☊
We came near to being killed. ☊ near ☊
Mr Chen opened the car door for his wife. ☊ open ☊
The dead woman had been overcome by smoke. ☊ overcome ☊
The dog was killed by rat poison (= poison intended to kill rats ). ☊ poison ☊
According to French press reports, three people have been killed. ☊ press ☊
In the movies guns kill people instantly, but it's not like that in real life. ☊ real ☊
Remarkably, nobody was killed. ☊ remarkably ☊
The cyclone has resulted in many thousands of deaths. ☊ result in sth ☊
Is it ever right to kill? ☊ right ☊
Two children were run over and killed. ☊ run sb/sth over ☊
It's a sad fact that many of those killed were children. ☊ sad ☊
A fund will be set up for the dead men's families. ☊ set sth up ☊
Police rushed to the scene of the shooting and found one person dead and three wounded. ☊ shooting ☊
Nothing more was heard from him so that we began to wonder if he was dead. ☊ so ☊
The howling wind sounded like the wailing of lost souls (= the spirits of dead people who are not in heaven). ☊ soul ☊
He is dead, but his spirit lives on. ☊ spirit ☊
a can of insect spray (= used to kill insects) ☊ spray ☊
substitute for sb/sth: Paul's father only saw him as a substitute for his dead brother. ☊ substitute ☊
suppose sb/sth (to be/have) sth: suppose sb/sth + adj./noun: Suppose him (to be) dead—what then? ☊ suppose ☊
swear sth: He swore revenge on the man who had killed his father. ☊ swear ☊
They suffered terribly when their son was killed. ☊ terribly ☊
There was an accident here yesterday. A car hit a tree and the driver was killed. ☊ the ☊
threaten to do sth: The hijackers threatened to kill one passenger every hour if their demands were not met. ☊ threaten ☊
threaten that...: They threatened that passengers would be killed. ☊ threaten ☊
He met with a violent death (= he was murdered, killed in a fight, etc.). ☊ violent ☊
Her husband was killed during the war. ☊ war ☊
The kids have totally worn me out. ☊ wear yourself/sb out ☊
My shirt was wet through (= completely wet). ☊ wet ☊
She was killed when she was crushed under the wheels of a bus. ☊ wheel ☊
wish sb/sth/yourself + adj.: He's dead and it's no use wishing him alive again. ☊ wish ☊
There were 79 killed and 230 wounded. ☊ wounded ☊