suicide
noun /ˈsuːɪsaɪd/
/ˈsuːɪsaɪd/
- [uncountable, countable] the act of killing yourself deliberately
自杀 - to commit suicide
自杀 - an attempted suicide (= one in which the person survives)
自杀未遂 - a suicide bomber (= who expects to die while trying to kill other people with a bomb)
自杀式爆炸者
Topics Crime and punishmentc1- Her death was ruled an apparent suicide.
她的死被判定为明显的自杀。 - Members of the sect committed mass suicide.
那个教派的成员集体自杀了。 - He slashed his wrists in a failed suicide attempt.
他割腕自杀未遂。 - He was put on suicide watch earlier in his prison term.
为防止他自杀，关押初期他受到了监视。 - There is no evidence that he is a suicide risk.
没有证据表明他要自杀。 - a suicide bomb attack on a military convoy
对军事舰队进行的自杀性爆炸袭击 - the questions surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide
围绕安乐死和辅助性自杀的问题 - the ritual suicide of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre
寡妇在丈夫的火葬柴堆上进行的仪式性自杀
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- attempted
- collective
- double
- …
- commit
- attempt
- consider
- …
- risk
- threat
- attempt
- …
- to commit suicide
- [uncountable] a course of action that is likely to destroy your career, position in society, etc.
自杀性行为；自毁；自取灭亡的行为 - It would have been political suicide for him to challenge the allegations in court.
假如当时他在法庭上质疑那些指控，那无异于自毁政治前程。
- That's asking them to commit career suicide.
那等于是让他们断送自己的职业生涯。 - Wearing shoes like that would be social suicide.
穿那样的鞋子无异于社交上自绝其路。
- It would have been political suicide for him to challenge the allegations in court.
- [countable] (formal) a person who commits suicide
自杀者
词源mid 17th cent.: from modern Latin suicida ‘act of suicide’, suicidium ‘person who commits suicide’, from Latin sui ‘of oneself’ + caedere ‘kill’.