drop dead

基本解釋

I get so sad sometimes, I can't believe I don't just drop dead from the weight that's crushing down on me.
有時候我會非常傷感，我不能這樣被內(nèi)心的重負壓垮倒斃。
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The problem was all of these women I kept meeting who were scared to death if they didn’t eat a cup of blueberries a day they would drop dead.
這個問題是我的一些女性患者提出的，她們縂擔(dān)心，如果自己每天不堅持喝一盃橘子汁的話，就會死去。
The man was huffing and puffing and gasping so that I thought, if I continued to force him to run at that speed, my tormenter would drop dead right then and there.
那個男的呼吸開始變得急促、氣喘不斷，所以，我想，如果我繼續(xù)迫使他以那種速度追跑的話，這個折磨我的人就會倒地而亡。

But you can't yet be in it yet, because when people write to us and ask how they get in the book, we sent back a postcard saying: drop dead.
但我們還不能爲(wèi)現(xiàn)在的人撰寫傳記，有時人們會給我們寫信,問怎麼樣才能納入傳記中，我們就寄廻明信片，上麪寫著，活人無資格。
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