| 单词 | living corpse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliving corpse living corpse n. figurative a person who is technically alive, but otherwise unresponsive and incapable of participating in life; cf. living dead n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > manner of life > specific > one who liverc1405 living corpse1659 living dead1696 lifer1939 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. xiii. 484 They paved the Churches with their prostrate bodies, which were so penitently pallid and deplorable, that they seemed only living corpses and breathing carkases. 1740 G. S. Tacheron tr. J.-P. de Crousaz New Maxims Educ. Youth v. 155 Mutilated, living Corpses, disquieted and tormented by the Complaints of others as well as distressed by their own Pains. 1860 J. W. Palmer tr. M. J. Michelet Love iv. viii. 243 It may be said that she came out of the asylum a living corpse [Fr. elle sortit morte], and it was not long before she died in reality. 2015 Cape Argus (Nexis) 1 July 13 Rape, to my mind, is a crime perhaps worse than murder—in the latter case, the victim, at least is dead, and not a living corpse. < as lemmas |
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