淹死
yān sǐ
Pinyin
Definition
淹死
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- to drown
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to die
- 2 impassable
- 3 uncrossable
- 4 inflexible
- 5 rigid
- 6 extremely
- 7 damned
- 1 to freeze to death
- 2 to die off in winter
- 1 half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc)
- 2 (tired) to death
- 3 (terrified) out of one's wits
- 4 (beaten) to within an inch of one's life
- 5 (knock) the daylights out of sb
- 1 go to hell!
- 2 drop dead!
- 1 to block (a road)
- 2 to plug (a hole)
- 3 to stop up
Idioms (20)
不到黄河心不死
- 1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)
- 2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal
- 3 to keep going while some hope is left
不是鱼死就是网破
- 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
- 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
- 3 it's either him or me
不知死活
- 1 to act recklessly (idiom)
不要在一棵树上吊死
- 1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
- 2 there's more than one way to skin a cat
九死一生
- 1 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape
- 2 new lease of life
Sample Sentences
二来什么呀？我就是为女同胞鸣不平，出轨就是没有责任没有担当的表现，就应该被唾沫星子淹死！
Secondly what? I'm just calling out injustice for my fellow womankind. Cheating is a really irresponsible behavior, which shows no sense of duty. They should be drowned when their mouths water with lust!
你读过李白的《将进酒》吗？里面写到：“但愿长醉不复醒”。传说最后李白是失足跌到河里淹死的。
Have you read Li Bai's "Invitation to Wine“? In it he wrote: "I only want to get drunk and never wake”. It's said that in the end Li Bai tripped and fell into the river and drowned.
啊哟，不行，不行，我怕淹死。
Oh no. It's no good. It's no good. I'm afraid I'm going to drown.