请输入您要查询的单词:

 

单词 die roaring
释义

die roaring

English

Verb phrase

die roaring (third-person singular simple present dies roaring, present participle dying roaring, simple past and past participle died roaring)

  1. (Ireland, colloquial, dated) die in agony, especially as divine punishment for a wicked life
    • 1910 Patrick Weston Joyce "Comparisons" p.137 English as we speak it in Ireland (London: Longmans, Green)
      May you die roaring like Doran's bull!
    • 1939 March, Frank O'Connor, "First Confession", Harper's Bazaar:
      "Did you ever see a fellow hanged?"
      "I saw dozens of them," he assured me solemnly, "and they all died roaring."
    • 1997 September 13 "The court of Malachy" The Irish Times
      The genial, white-haired Malachy also enthralled the audience with grim jokes about how Henry VIII and Randolph Churchill died roaring from syphillis.
  • die roaring for a priest
随便看

 

国际大辞典收录了7408809条英语、德语、日语等多语种在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的翻译及用法,是外语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2023 idict.net All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/9/5 6:32:48