They would have been killed if the car had gone over the cliff.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
没命
to lose one's life
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to lose one's life
02
to die
03
recklessly
04
desperately
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 没命 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 没命 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 没命.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 没命.
Directly before
- 贵得没命1
- 早就没命1
Directly after
- 没命了2
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 没命
What does 没命 mean in Chinese?
没命 (méimìng) means to lose one's life.
How do you pronounce 没命?
没命 is pronounced méimìng.
Is 没命 an HSK word?
没命 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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