be dying of

基本解释

If I had not run away from home and if Father were here now, I should not be dying of hunger.
如果我不從家裡進出去，如果我爸爸在這兒，這會兒我就不會餓得要命了！
“Young man”, he wise man said, “if you want to be truly great, you must not be scared of dying, you must be daring.”
“年輕人”，智慧老人說，“如果你想成爲真正的偉人，你必須要藐眡死亡，必須敢於臨危受命。”
However, if your community seems to be dying of its own inertia before the end of the project, feel free to bring it up.
不過，如果社區在項目結束之前就開始衰退，那麽可以拯救它。

As he was dying of tuberculosis at the age of 39, he asked that his heart be removed and taken back to his homeland.
Sidney believed this so much in fact that when he knew himself to be dying, having been mortally wounded in a battle, he ordered that all of his own poems be burned.
西德尼深信他的這一觀點,甚至儅他快死的時候，也就是在戰場上受了致命傷以後，他要求別人焚燒他寫的全部詩歌。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選
Animals that are altruistic even to the point of dying to help another, those genes will, under some circumstances, be preserved over the genes of people who are less caring.
有強烈利它主義的動物,甚至爲其他動物犧牲自己，這些基因在某些情況下，就會被保存下來,而那些不關心他人的基因則不會。
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Though North Koreans are already reported to be dying of hunger, a vast famine remains improbable.
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