参考词典中give-up the ghost的常规释义:
英英解释
1个动词解释
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
[同] conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it, choke
[反] be born
[例]- She died from cancer
- They children perished in the fire
- The patient went peacefully
- The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
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