pass away

汉语翻译

词意辨析：

die, decease, expire, perish, pass away

这些动词或短语动词均有“死”或“死亡”之意。
die: 最普通用词，指某人或某物失去生命而永远不存在。
decease: 正式用词，多指法律上的用语。
expire: 委婉用词。从本义“从肺部吐出气来”引申为吐出最后一口气，断气而死。
perish: 书面用词，多指夭折或不幸暴亡。
pass away: 是die的委婉用语。

英语解释：

动词 pass away:

1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
   同义词：die, decease, perish, go, exit, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
2. go out of existence

例句：

1. `Pass away' is a euphemism for `die'.
   ｀去世＇是｀死＇的委婉说法。
2. Our director passed away at eight o'clock last night.
   我们董事长于昨晚八时去世。
3. That famous mathematician passed away yesterday.
   昨天，那位著名的数学家去世了。
4. His grandpa passed away last year.
   他的爷爷/外公去年去世了。
5. His grandfather passed away last year.
   他的祖父去年去世了。
6. In this would where all other things die and pass away, gold, and sometimes also silver, remain.
   在这个万物都会死亡或消失的世界上，惟有金子，有时还有银子，能长久存在。
7. She passed away in Shanghai on June11, at the advanced age of101.
   她于六月十一日以一百零一岁的高龄在上海逝世。