英和和英

名詞

early grave (複数形 early graves)

1. (idiomatic) An end of life before the expected time.

   All your aggravation will drive me to an early grave.

   Neglect put his car in an early grave.

   • 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, The Broken Heart,

     I believe in broken hearts, and the possibility of dying of disappointed love! I do not, however, consider it a malady often fatal to my own sex; but I firmly believe that it withers down many a lovely woman into an early grave.

   • 1848, Thomas Francis Meagher, Speech From the Dock,

     Even here—here, where the thief, the libertine, the murderer, have left their foot-prints in the dust—here, on this Spot, where the shadows of death surround me, and from which I see my early grave in an un-anointed soil open to receive me—even here encircled by these terrors, that hope which first beckoned me to the perilous sea on which I have been wrecked, still consoles, animates and enraptures me.

   • 1870, Ellen G. White, A Solemn Appeal, An Appeal to Mothers,

     Children who practice self-indulgence previous to puberty, or the period of merging into manhood or womanhood, must pay the penalty of nature's violated laws at that critical period. Many sink into an early grave, while others have sufficient force of constitution to pass this ordeal.

   • 1912, Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record, Chapter II,

     It has been my lot to lay in an early grave many honest hearts, many brilliant promises, many hopes full of life.

2. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Death at a young age.
3. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) An act of sentencing of someone under the who was under the age of 18 at the time of the crime to death row. Early death row.
4. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) An execution or death sentence of someone who was under the age of 18 at the time of the crime. Early capital punishment.