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Definition of death wish in English: death wishnoun An unconscious desire for one's own death. 求死愿望。比较DEATH INSTINCT Example sentencesExamples - How can the railways cater for the occasional idiot with a death wish?
- I rolled over to look at my clock and groaned. 5: 30 am, whoever was knocking had a serious death wish.
- The parallel between suicide and death was established as early as Freud in his discussions of the death wish, and also in the work of Klein.
- He knew that approaching now would be a death wish.
- Ever-present cigarettes create the disturbing impression that the film's characters are possessed by a collective death wish.
- Think about it - anyone who smokes in this day and age of acute awareness of the many and sundry risks involved obviously has a death wish.
- Beyond a small circle of knuckle draggers with a death wish, will aircraft-grade aluminum toboggans and such sell?
- Wilbur, who longs for Alice himself but recognizes his death wish means he doesn't have much to offer, starts making tiny changes in his life.
- Don't scream in fear, tourists already think we have a death wish.
- At one level, this behavior may be interpreted as acting out a death wish, or a suicide pact, in which both partners ultimately die.
- The sniper wants to be caught because he has a death wish.
- The journey is further enlivened by local drivers, who appear to have a collective death wish, and the occasional stray cow grazing by the roadside.
- It would be speaking too strongly to claim that the French and like-minded inhabitants of other continental European countries have a death wish.
- This is the sort of course all golfers with a death wish want to play: if you are slightly off your game it will slowly drag you down into a state of mediocrity.
- ‘Only those with a death wish just sit out here in the snow,’ said Zechariah.
- It's a neat conceit, highly theatrical: drop four unrelated characters with a death wish onto a makeshift stage and see what happens.
- Whether this collision was really an accident or due to a subconscious death wish is open to question.
- In many senses, an especially beautiful literary expression of suicide that does not involve the death wish is in The Little Prince.
- Could the British press have discovered a curious tendency for elephants with a death wish to form groups of 280, or was this a coincidence?
- Certainly the world of The Grifters is not for the faint of heart, where life is a moral quicksand, relaxing is a death wish, and escape is impossible.
Definition of death wish in US English: death wishnounˈdɛθ ˌwɪʃˈdeTH ˌwiSH A desire for someone's death, especially an unconscious desire for one's own death. 求死愿望。比较DEATH INSTINCT Compare with death instinct Example sentencesExamples - Certainly the world of The Grifters is not for the faint of heart, where life is a moral quicksand, relaxing is a death wish, and escape is impossible.
- He knew that approaching now would be a death wish.
- In many senses, an especially beautiful literary expression of suicide that does not involve the death wish is in The Little Prince.
- Beyond a small circle of knuckle draggers with a death wish, will aircraft-grade aluminum toboggans and such sell?
- I rolled over to look at my clock and groaned. 5: 30 am, whoever was knocking had a serious death wish.
- The parallel between suicide and death was established as early as Freud in his discussions of the death wish, and also in the work of Klein.
- This is the sort of course all golfers with a death wish want to play: if you are slightly off your game it will slowly drag you down into a state of mediocrity.
- It would be speaking too strongly to claim that the French and like-minded inhabitants of other continental European countries have a death wish.
- How can the railways cater for the occasional idiot with a death wish?
- Whether this collision was really an accident or due to a subconscious death wish is open to question.
- Don't scream in fear, tourists already think we have a death wish.
- The journey is further enlivened by local drivers, who appear to have a collective death wish, and the occasional stray cow grazing by the roadside.
- Could the British press have discovered a curious tendency for elephants with a death wish to form groups of 280, or was this a coincidence?
- It's a neat conceit, highly theatrical: drop four unrelated characters with a death wish onto a makeshift stage and see what happens.
- Wilbur, who longs for Alice himself but recognizes his death wish means he doesn't have much to offer, starts making tiny changes in his life.
- Think about it - anyone who smokes in this day and age of acute awareness of the many and sundry risks involved obviously has a death wish.
- The sniper wants to be caught because he has a death wish.
- ‘Only those with a death wish just sit out here in the snow,’ said Zechariah.
- Ever-present cigarettes create the disturbing impression that the film's characters are possessed by a collective death wish.
- At one level, this behavior may be interpreted as acting out a death wish, or a suicide pact, in which both partners ultimately die.
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