汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 自寻短见
自寻短见 (自尋短見)
commit suicide / seek one's own destruction
() xún duǎn () jiàn/xiàn
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

为什么自寻短见,为什么在已获自由的情况下还有离开这个世界呢?

Why kill oneself and leave this world after having won freedom?

另一方面,我倒看到许多人自寻短见,因为他们觉得生命不值一活。

On the other hand, I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living.

她的侄子Timothy慢性酒精中毒,她也从来不去看望他;更有甚者,她拒绝参加侄媳妇的葬礼——她是因孩子(伊丽莎白的侄孙女)夭折而自寻短见的。

Her nephew Timothy was a chronic alcoholic. She never visited him either, nor did she attend the funeral of his wife, who killed herself after her child - and Elizabeth's great-niece - died.