drop dead

基本解释

I get so sad sometimes, I can't believe I don't just drop dead from the weight that's crushing down on me.
有时候我会非常伤感，我不能这样被内心的重负压垮倒毙。
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The problem was all of these women I kept meeting who were scared to death if they didn’t eat a cup of blueberries a day they would drop dead.
这个问题是我的一些女性患者提出的，她们总担心，如果自己每天不坚持喝一杯橘子汁的话，就会死去。
The man was huffing and puffing and gasping so that I thought, if I continued to force him to run at that speed, my tormenter would drop dead right then and there.
那个男的呼吸开始变得急促、气喘不断，所以，我想，如果我继续迫使他以那种速度追跑的话，这个折磨我的人就会倒地而亡。

But you can't yet be in it yet, because when people write to us and ask how they get in the book, we sent back a postcard saying: drop dead.
但我们还不能为现在的人撰写传记，有时人们会给我们写信,问怎么样才能纳入传记中，我们就寄回明信片，上面写着，活人无资格。
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