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.
如果我不从家里进出去，如果我爸爸在这儿，这会儿我就不会饿得要命了！
“Young man”, he wise man said, “if you want to be truly great, you must not be scared of dying, you must be daring.”
“年轻人”，智慧老人说，“如果你想成为真正的伟人，你必须要藐视死亡，必须敢于临危受命。”
However, if your community seems to be dying of its own inertia before the end of the project, feel free to bring it up.
不过，如果社区在项目结束之前就开始衰退，那么可以拯救它。

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.
西德尼深信他的这一观点,甚至当他快死的时候，也就是在战场上受了致命伤以后，他要求别人焚烧他写的全部诗歌。
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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.
有强烈利它主义的动物,甚至为其他动物牺牲自己，这些基因在某些情况下，就会被保存下来,而那些不关心他人的基因则不会。
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Though North Koreans are already reported to be dying of hunger, a vast famine remains improbable.
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