| 单词 | dead to the world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead to the world c. Colloquial phrase dead to the world: unconscious or fast asleep; unaware of the external world. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > asleep > deeply or fast asleep fastOE sound asleep1597 dead to the world1899 1899 G. Ade Doc' Horne ii. 19 Our host is dead to the world,’ observed the actor... ‘Let him rest,’ said Doc'. 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands iii. 31 Heaven knows what blissful emotions were stirring softly in his bony breast, but he was ‘dead to the world’. 1906 Dial. Notes 3 ii. 133 Dead to the world, unconscious. ‘He fell down and was dead to the world for a while.’ 1955 E. Hillary High Adventure 166 He stumbled and fell slowly on to his face and lay there—dead to the world! 1957 G. Frick tr. ‘M. Yourcenar’ Coup de Grâce 56 A muffled sound of snoring rose from the great hall..where thirty exhausted lads lay dead to the world. < as lemmas |
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