Demise

(verb.) transfer by a lease or by a will.

霍奇编辑

• It was over Sir Pitt Crawley's house; but it did not indicate the worthy baronet's demise. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The felicitous word demise, which had seasonably occurred to him, had raised his spirits even above their usual evening pitch. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Was not a bowl of wine the cause of the demise of Alexander the Great, or, at least, does not Dr. Lempriere say so? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• When the demise took place, her husband was in London attending to some of his innumerable schemes, and busy with his endless lawyers. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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