溺
溺 in English
- to drown / to indulge / addicted to / to spoil (a child)
- to urinate / urine / CL:泡[pao1] / variant of 尿[niao4]
How it used to be written
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他奋不顾身地把遇溺的男孩救了起来。
He saved the drowning boy at the risk of his own life.
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他把溺水的小孩救了起來，但是卻犧牲了自己的生命。
He saved the drowning child at the cost of his own life.
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他救了一个溺水的男孩。
He rescued a boy from drowning.
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他救了那个遇溺的男孩，但却犠牲了自己的生命。
He saved the boy from drowning, but only at the cost of his own life.
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他溺水而亡。
He drowned.
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他试图在浴缸里溺死。
He tried to drown himself in his bathtub.
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她差点就溺水了。
She came near to drowning.
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有几个船员溺水而亡。
Some of the crew were drowned.