释义 |
an early graveA premature or untimely death: he worked himself into an early grave...- I was tired of losing those I cared about most to an early grave, I was tired of hearing about death upon death upon death.
- The fight or flight emotions we originally felt, are today replaced with many other emotions that injure our immune systems and put us in an early grave.
- The early death of the poet's brother haunts the book, and there is an elegy for him, and more than one portrait of him as a delinquent headed for an early grave.
See parent entry: early |