deathbed

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++death·bed /ˈdeθbed/ noun [countable usually singular]DIE the bed on which someone dies or is dying 临终床on your deathbed On her deathbed, Miriam’s mother reveals that she never knew her father. 米丽娅姆的母亲临终时吐露，她一直不知道她父亲是谁。deathbed confession/conversion etc (=made when you are dying) 临终时的忏悔/皈依等 The disease allowed no time for a deathbed repentance. 这种病让人来不及临终忏悔就死去了。

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deathbed• Even so, the memory of Mama on her deathbed entreating Dad to tell us his story continued to nag at me.• On her deathbed Mary Leapor reportedly expressed concern for her father's advancing age.• Take that last one, about Darwin on his deathbed.• Preston wondered if he really didn't know about the deathbed pantomime.on your deathbed• Hugh became an animal on his deathbed.• Louis Bertrand on his deathbed was accompanied by an intense light which brightened his humble cell for several minutes.• Take that last one, about Darwin on his deathbed.• Thirty years later, on her deathbed, she confessed to the crime.• He was not even baptised until he lay on his deathbed.• Even so, the memory of Mama on her deathbed entreating Dad to tell us his story continued to nag at me.• A more serious breach of ethics came with the publication of a picture of Mitterrand on his deathbed.• A riot in a drab housing project outside Paris leaves one participant on his deathbed, a victim of police brutality.• Here he was on his deathbed, preparing for oblivion, and she sits over there reading Parson Noah's latest pamphlet.• My grandmother gave me that ring when she was on her deathbed.

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deathbed
death‧bed /ˈdeθbed/