dead 意味 & 読み方

日本語でのdeadの意味

• 0 not now alive -- 死んでいる

  • She’s been dead for 20 years now.

  • There were two firefighters among the dead.

• 1 If a piece of equipment is dead, it is not working. -- 機能が停止した

  • a dead battery

  • The phone suddenly went dead.

• 2 If a place is dead, it is too quiet and nothing interesting is happening there. -- 活気のない

• 3 If someone wouldn’t be caught dead in a place or doing something, they would never go there or do it, usually because it would be too embarrassing. -- ～は死んでもいやだ

  • I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a bikini.

• 4 to die very suddenly -- ぽっくり死ぬ

• 5 clearly and obviously dead -- 間違いなく死んでいる

• 6 If you say something will happen over your dead body, you mean that you will do everything you can to prevent it. -- 私の目の黒いうちは絶対させない

  • ‘Joe says he’s going to buy a motorbike.’ ‘Over my dead body!’