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单词 suicide
释义
suicidesu‧i‧cide /ˈsuːəsaɪd, ˈsjuː- $ ˈsuː-/ ●○○ noun [countable, uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsuicide
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin sui ‘of oneself’ + English -cide
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Barry threatened to commit suicide if she refused to marry him.
  • Police are treating the man's death as suicide.
  • Stephen required hospital treatment after his suicide attempt.
  • There is grave concern about the number of teenage suicides recorded last year.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • He told me the only way he could get checked in to a hospital was by attempting suicide.
  • In the United States, 35 states explicitly make doctor-assisted suicide a crime, including New York.
  • Moore's suicide note was also read to the court.
  • Rumours spread that you had committed suicide.
  • This would particularly apply where the risk of suicide is judged to be high.
  • To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto die for your country or for something you believe in
· These brave men were ready to fight and die for their country.· How many of you would be willing to die for your religion?
formal to die in order to save someone, or because of something that you believe in: · We want to pay special tribute to the men and women who have given their lives in service of their country.give your life/lay down your life for: · He was ready to lay down his life for his comrades.
someone who is killed because of their religious or political beliefs, and becomes very famous because of this: · The early Christian martyrs were killed by the thousands.make somebody a martyr/make a martyr out of somebody (=make people think someone is a martyr): · His death in police hands made him a martyr among the people.
someone who attacks and kills people with a bomb etc even though they know they will die as well: · FBI agents found the passport of one of the suicide bombers among the wreckage.· Suicide pilots are brainwashed into believing they will go straight to paradise when they die.
to kill yourself
· He killed himself by jumping under a train.· She tried to kill herself when news of the scandal leaked out.· You'll kill yourself if you go on drinking like that.
when someone deliberately kills himself or herself: · Police are treating the man's death as suicide.· There is grave concern about the number of teenage suicides recorded last year.commit suicide: · Barry threatened to commit suicide if she refused to marry him.suicide attempt: · Stephen required hospital treatment after his suicide attempt.
formal to kill yourself: · Many religions consider that it is a sin to take your own life.· Desperately frustrated and alone, she could see no way out except to take her own life.
someone who is suicidal is likely to kill themselves because they are extremely unhappy: · The thought of having to stay in the house all day made me feel almost suicidal.suicidal tendencies (=behaviour that shows you may try to kill yourself): · Had the prisoner previously displayed suicidal tendencies?
informal if you want to end it all , you want to kill yourself because you are extremely unhappy, lonely etc - used especially in stories: · Sometimes I feel so low I just feel like ending it all.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
(=kill yourself)· Most people who commit suicide have had depressive illnesses.
(=try to kill yourself)· She had attempted suicide twice.
(=think that you might try to kill yourself)· I contemplated suicide on several occasions after my daughter died.
suicide + NOUN
· He was admitted to a psychiatric facility after a suicide attempt.
(=a suicide attempt – used in news reports)· The singer was rushed to hospital after an apparent suicide bid.
(=a letter in which someone explains their reasons for killing themselves)· He left a suicide note for his two teenage children saying ‘Please forgive me.’
(=when someone says that they will kill themselves)· Depression may sometimes lead to suicide threats.
(=an agreement that two or more people make to kill themselves at the same time)· She shot her husband and herself in a suicide pact.
(=the number of people who kill themselves)· The suicide rate among former soldiers is very high.
adjectives
(=when many people commit suicide together)· He ordered his followers to commit mass suicide.
(=when someone such as a doctor helps a very ill person commit suicide)· Thirty-four other states have adopted similar laws banning assisted suicide.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=an attempt to kill yourself)· He was admitted to hospital after a suicide attempt.
(=the person carrying the bomb dies when it explodes)· Each time there is a suicide bomb it is a new blow to peace.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Pregnancy or childbirth. Attempted suicide.· In summary, therefore, most special aftercare services have had no effect on repetition rates after attempted suicide.· Therefore, the whole of this chapter has been devoted to discussion of this aspect of care of attempted suicide patients.· A few days short of his fifteenth birthday, Gert attempted suicide, cutting his wrist and jumping from a third-floor window.· They became involved after some of the cult's former members attempted suicide.· Lizzy's attempted suicide had been whispered around the station by now, she was sure.· Concluding comments Attempted suicide continues to present a very challenging problem for medical and psychiatric services.· It is doubtful, however, whether they would prevent attempted suicide.
· A man who had been living on his own committed suicide.· Hoffman, after a colorful career as an activist for various causes, committed suicide.· In a well publicised case a patient recently committed suicide while under the care of a clinical ecologist.· I ... sort of ... committed suicide.· A girl in the soap opera committed suicide with them.· Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, chief military adviser to Gorbachev, committed suicide on Aug. 24.· The defence claimed Mrs Armstrong could have taken the poison herself and committed suicide.· They had two sons; the elder committed suicide in 1928 and the younger died in action in 1917.
· Corbett related that he felt much like committing suicide himself at this point.· Mum didn't want that to happen. Committing suicide was a mortal sin.· In 1988 there were several well-publicised cases of young people committing suicide apparently because of unrequited love.· Thus, a doctor is under a duty to refrain from any act which may aid his patient in committing suicide.· Nor was there a difference in the proportion of those committing suicide who had previously been in touch with the psychiatric service.· Young Londonderry men are committing suicide at a higher rate than almost any other group of people in the United Kingdom.· This last revolutionary had cheated the State by committing suicide while awaiting execution, but was not allowed to cheat the guillotine.
· It is nothing less than national economic and social suicide.· It built the Central Valley Project to rescue the growers from economic suicide by groundwater overdraft.
· The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents.· After a national report on the high suicide rate among gay and lesbian teens, in 1992 Gov.· But California has what is probably the highest suicide rate in the world.· There is a higher suicide rate among weight-loss surgery patients than there is among the morbidly obese.· SHe'd heard about how gender meddling had been outlawed because of the high suicide rate among the successfully mutated.· Of all groups, single males have the highest mortality rate-and suicide is increasingly the way they die.· Young people have a much higher rate of suicide, smoking, and accidental death.· Most disturbing of all is the high suicide rate among rural women.
· That need not cause mass suicide among the contractors, or imply that none of these projects will be built.
· Sensing his authority had ebbed, Fujimori grimly took the only exit left: political suicide, a move that stunned everyone.· To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide.· The government believes it would be political suicide to allow pension contributions to rise above 30 percent.· Hence Mr Yeltsin's dilemma: to persuade the deputies to commit political suicide without acting unconstitutionally.
NOUN
· There are several measures which might reduce the chances of a suicide attempt in an individual at risk.· Shea said the sparse cell where Salvi is housed is designed to frustrate suicide attempts.· The father continued the suicide attempt but he was rescued by police.· Depression has been a lifelong struggle for me, and 17 years ago I was hospitalized after a suicide attempt.· The court heard the girl has made several suicide attempts and is still receiving treatment.· He sloshed around in a cold river in a halfhearted suicide attempt.· Mr Jamshidi has recently left hospital after slashing his wrists in his own suicide attempt.· He was taken to hospital on July 29 with bullet wounds to the chest, apparently the result of a suicide attempt.
· This development follows the first suicide bomb attack for two years.· Each time there is a suicide bomb or attack we should point a finger at ourselves?
· Can suicide bombers really be considered cowards?· Anonymous but infamous in death, they are the suicide bombers who killed 14 people last month in a Jerusalem market.· The bomb, it said, had been planted by a suicide bomber, named as Abu Yasser.· The homes of suicide bombers will be sealed, then destroyed, he said.· A woman Tiger suicide bomber then assassinated Gandhi.
· Read in studio Up to four farmers a week commit suicide in Britain.· Every single psephologist, political pundit and pollster must now resign, be sacked, or better yet, commit suicide.· I had read enough to know that the figures for anorexics who starve to death or commit suicide are frighteningly high.· People, after all, are often involved in disputes and difficulties with their relatives, but only a minority commit suicide.· Many commit suicide because they see no possible hope for the future.
· His suicide mission came as a surprise to more people than just his family.· As Delbert saw it, they went on suicide missions, which was just the kind of action he wanted.· The powers-that-be decide to send you on a suicide mission - nice peeps, aren't they?
· Moore's suicide note was also read to the court.· A suicide note was found on a china cabinet.· Dollar bills, pound notes, they're suicide notes.· An apparent suicide note found in the house on the day she died claimed the child had been fathered by another man.· She was dead, left a suicide note.· Eventually, they discovered the suicide note, which mentioned the name of the hotel.· Even in his suicide note he couldn't bear to tell me.
· At the moment they don't know whether this was an accident, a murder or a suicide pact.· So they joined in a suicide pact which would rid them for ever of parental domination.· Lowestoft is a town twinned with nowhere, although it is considering a suicide pact with Basildon.· Desperate and afraid, they formed a suicide pact.· Detectives are investigating whether it was an accident, a murder or a suicide pact.
· The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents.· And you know what they say about the holidays and the suicide rate.· As a result 5,000 farmers are going out of business every year and the suicide rate for farmers has never been higher.· After a national report on the high suicide rate among gay and lesbian teens, in 1992 Gov.· But California has what is probably the highest suicide rate in the world.· And their suicide rate is two to three times higher than ours in every age category.· Since the closure of the tower, Pisa's alarming suicide rate has fallen.· There is a higher suicide rate among weight-loss surgery patients than there is among the morbidly obese.
· Murder and suicide verdict after car park double shooting.· Mr Barter recorded a suicide verdict and expressed his sympathy to Mr Banks' family.
VERB
· In the United States, Oregon has a law permitting some assisted suicides.· All this can make assisted suicide seem a reasonable escape from inevitable agony.· The charge was dismissed on the ground that Michigan state law did not prohibit assisting some one to commit suicide.· The author imagined assisted suicide to be a heavily regulated practice, to prevent abuse.· Even so, she said, many of the people who come to the hospice ask about assisted suicide.
· The noises in my head never stop and have nearly driven me to suicide.· Kruger determines to drive him to suicide by whatever means at his disposal.· Some sufferers are even driven to suicide.· More than once, depression drove him to attempt suicide.· Now that the lights are on I don't suspect that she drove him to suicide.
· Anonymous but infamous in death, they are the suicide bombers who killed 14 people last month in a Jerusalem market.
· In the long term production of serotonin is reduced, leading to depression most suicides have low serotonin levels.· Depression is a leading cause of suicide in the elderly, and also affects mood, behavior and physical health.· Whom should we therefore ban from public places for causing all the depression leading to so many suicides?· They seek short-term competitive advantage even when it leads to long-term suicide.
· Poenisch is leading a grass-roots campaign to persuade Michigan voters to legalize doctor-assisted suicide.
· It wasn't read out in court, but it lead the Coroner to record a verdict of suicide.· The coroner recorded a verdict of suicide while she was suffering from depression.· Mr Short recorded a verdict of suicide.· Coroner Gordon Glasgow recorded a verdict of suicide.· Mr Barter recorded a suicide verdict and expressed his sympathy to Mr Banks' family.
· Her brother Marco tried to commit suicide after we left.· The second time, like the first, no one could say for certain she had been trying to commit suicide.· I have tried to commit suicide many times, but I couldn't do it.· Their eldest daughter, Elizabeth, 15, tried to commit suicide.· It was because I went to a disco that he tried to commit suicide.· Those who weren't constantly eating or in front of a mirror, were trying to commit suicide.· She asked me why I tried to commit suicide.· At the end of May 1944, she tried to commit suicide but was saved.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Hence Mr Yeltsin's dilemma: to persuade the deputies to commit political suicide without acting unconstitutionally.
  • It built the Central Valley Project to rescue the growers from economic suicide by groundwater overdraft.
  • Sensing his authority had ebbed, Fujimori grimly took the only exit left: political suicide, a move that stunned everyone.
  • The government believes it would be political suicide to allow pension contributions to rise above 30 percent.
  • To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide.
  • As Delbert saw it, they went on suicide missions, which was just the kind of action he wanted.
  • His suicide mission came as a surprise to more people than just his family.
  • The powers-that-be decide to send you on a suicide mission - nice peeps, aren't they?
► suicide by copPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • All I care about is solving this murder, I mean this attempted murder.
  • He was acquitted of rape, attempted murder, administering poison with intent and kidnapping.
  • In summary, therefore, most special aftercare services have had no effect on repetition rates after attempted suicide.
  • Redmond denied attempted murder but admitted wounding with intent.
  • Several forces have also seen very sharp rises in attempted murders.
  • The charges include the murder of Becky and the attempted murder of Katie in April 1991.
  • The suspects were held Wednesday on suspicion of attempted murder, attempted burglary and conspiracy.
  • We have cured hundreds of people from Chicago, Ill., from gunshot wounds inflicted in attempted murders and robberies.
  • Isaacs denied trying to help his brother commit suicide.
  • After the cremains were found last June in a collapsed storage locker, Vieira committed suicide.
  • But Grundberg committed suicide June 22, 1994.
  • Elaine Blond observed that he had committed suicide by stages.
  • I have tried to commit suicide many times, but I couldn't do it.
  • Only by restoring his muscle spasm had he been able to conquer the impulse to commit suicide.
  • The Gamester also ended tragically when Beverly, a gambler, falsely accused of murder, committed suicide by taking poison.
  • The Minister of Law and Order denied any police responsibility and suggested that many of those who died had committed suicide.
  • The second time, like the first, no one could say for certain she had been trying to commit suicide.
1the act of killing yourself:  More people commit suicide at Christmas than at any other time. My mother attempted suicide on many occasions. He apparently left a suicide note on his desk (=letter explaining his reasons for killing himself).2political/economic suicide something you do that ruins your good position in politics or the economy:  He said a vote for Labour would be a vote for economic suicide.3suicide attack/mission/bombing etc an attack etc in which the person who carries out the attack deliberately kills himself or herself in the process of killing other people4suicide by cop American English an occasion when someone deliberately threatens a police officer in order to make the police officer shoot, as a way of committing suicideCOLLOCATIONSverbscommit suicide (=kill yourself)· Most people who commit suicide have had depressive illnesses.attempt suicide (=try to kill yourself)· She had attempted suicide twice.contemplate suicide (=think that you might try to kill yourself)· I contemplated suicide on several occasions after my daughter died.suicide + NOUNa suicide attempt· He was admitted to a psychiatric facility after a suicide attempt.a suicide bid (=a suicide attempt – used in news reports)· The singer was rushed to hospital after an apparent suicide bid.a suicide note (=a letter in which someone explains their reasons for killing themselves)· He left a suicide note for his two teenage children saying ‘Please forgive me.’a suicide threat (=when someone says that they will kill themselves)· Depression may sometimes lead to suicide threats.a suicide pact (=an agreement that two or more people make to kill themselves at the same time)· She shot her husband and herself in a suicide pact.the suicide rate (=the number of people who kill themselves)· The suicide rate among former soldiers is very high.adjectivesmass suicide (=when many people commit suicide together)· He ordered his followers to commit mass suicide.assisted suicide (=when someone such as a doctor helps a very ill person commit suicide)· Thirty-four other states have adopted similar laws banning assisted suicide.
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