【跟着英剧练发音】Sherlock S01E01 - E

 L: Rachel was Jennifer Wilson’s stillborn daughter, fourteen years ago.

S: No, that’s ... that’s not right. How ... Why would she do that? Why?

A: Why would she think of her daughter in her last moments? Yup – sociopath; I’m seeing it now.

S: She didn’t think about her daughter. She scratched her name on the floor with her fingernails. She was dying¹. It took effort. It would have hurt.

 

1 dying   

adj.垂死的，临终的

参考例句：

• He was put in charge of the group by the dying leader.他被临终的领导人任命为集团负责人。
• She was shown into a small room,where there was a dying man.她被领进了一间小屋子，那里有一个垂死的人。