プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
しぬ【死ぬ】
❶die；((婉曲(えんきょく)に)) pass away
死んだ dead；〔故…〕the late ((Mr. Yoshida))
病気［がん］で死ぬ
die of 「a disease [cancer]
けががもとで死ぬ
die from a wound（▼病気や飢えなどで死ぬ時はof，けがやその他の原因による時はfromを用いる）
交通事故で死ぬ
die [be killed] in a traffic accident
焼け死ぬ
be burned to death／die in a fire
溺れ死ぬ
drown／be drowned
死なばもろともだ
〔一緒にやるとこまでやろう〕Let's stick to it together whatever may happen.／〔相打ちだ〕If I must die [suffer my downfall], I'm going to take you with me.
畳の上で死ぬ
die in one's own bed／die a peaceful death
死にかかっている
be dying
彼が死んでから５年になる
He has been dead for five years.／It has been five years since he died.
これじゃ死ぬに死ねない
I can't die and leave things in this state.
死ぬ覚悟でそこに出かけた
He went there fully aware that it might cost him his life.
のどが渇いて死にそうだ
I'm dying for a glass of water.
部活がきつくて死にそうだった
The club activities were so hard that I could hardly take it.
死んでしまいたい
I wish I were dead.
死んでもそんなことはしたくない
I would rather die than do a thing like that.
死ぬ気でやればなんでもできる
You can do anything if 「you're not afraid of death [you go into it ready to die].
あいつは死んだも同然だ
He is as good as dead.
娘は死んだものとあきらめた
He gave his daughter up for dead.
この虫は死んだふりをしている
This insect is 「feigning death [playing dead].
❷〔生気がなくなる〕
この肖像画は死んでいる
There is no life in this portrait.
この言葉をとるとこの文章は死んでしまう
The sentence falls flat if you cross that word out.
色彩が死んでいる
The colors are dead [flat/lifeless].
❸〔活用されない〕
死んでいる資金
money lying unused
❹〔囲碁で〕be captured
❺〔野球で〕be (put) out ⇒アウト
死んだ子の歳を数える
死んで花実が咲くものか
What good is anything if you're dead?