一、详细释义：


phr.

去世


例句：

his violent death was euphemistically referred to as a passing away.

他的突然死亡被委婉地称作去世。


例句：

When we pass away, they will continue to live.

当我们过世的时候，他们将会继续住。


消磨时间，过去


例句：

As the time passes by, she started to pine away.

随着时间的流逝，她也日渐衰老。


二、词义辨析：


die,decease,expire,perish,pass away

这些动词或短语动词均有“死”或“死亡”之意。 die最普通用词，指某人或某物失去生命而永远不存在。 decease正式用词，多指法律上的用语。 expire委婉用词。从本义“从肺部吐出气来”引申为吐出最后一口气，断气而死。 perish书面用词，多指夭折或不幸暴亡。 pass away是die的委婉用语。


三、参考例句：


"Pass away" is a euphemism for "die".

“去世”是“死”的委婉语。


"Pass away" is an euphemism for "die".

“过世”是“死”的委婉语。


Do you think he'll pass away?

你认为他会死吗？


When we pass away, they will continue to live.

当我们过世的时候，他们将会继续住。


Three things soon pass away: the echo of the woods, the rainbow, and woman's beauty.

三样东西最易消逝：树林的回响，彩虹和妇女的美貌。


Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the law of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved.

然而就像琥珀中的飞虫、冰川中的古尸，通过纸上的墨水他们奇迹般的被保存了下来。