| 释义 |
a fate worse than deathA terrible experience: are you going to buy me a drink as well as rescuing me from a fate worse than death?...- Treves rescues Merrick from a fate worse than death as he is attacked by a ravenous crowd at Liverpool Street station.
- To me, failing at this calling when challenged would be a fate worse than death.
- It'd be a fate worse than death, a bit like being kept comatose on life support for decades: yes, technically you're alive, but it's no life at all.
See parent entry: death |