More people commit suicide at Christmas than at any other time.
圣诞节期间自杀的人比其他任何时候都多。
My mother attempted suicide on many occasions.
我母亲多次试图自杀。
He apparently left a suicide note on his desk (=letter explaining his reasons for killing himself).
他显然在桌上留了封绝笔信。
2political/economic suicideDESTROYsomething you do that ruins your good position in politics or the economy 断送政治前程/经济发展之举
He said a vote for Labour would be a vote for economic suicide.
他说投工党的票等于是自毁经济。
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political/economic suicide• The government believes it would be political suicide to allow pensioncontributions to rise above 30 percent.• To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide.• Hence Mr Yeltsin's dilemma: to persuade the deputies to commitpolitical suicide without acting unconstitutionally.• It built the CentralValleyProject to rescue the growers from economic suicide by groundwateroverdraft.• Sensing his authority had ebbed, Fujimori grimly took the only exit left: political suicide, a move that stunned everyone.
3.suicide attack/mission/bombing etcan attack etc in which the person who carries out the attack deliberately kills himself or herself in the process of killing other people 自杀性攻击/任务/爆炸等
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suicide attack/mission/bombing etc• The powers-that-be decide to send you on a suicide mission - nicepeeps, aren't they?• His suicide mission came as a surprise to more people than just his family.• As Delbert saw it, they went on suicide missions, which was just the kind of action he wanted.
Most people who commit suicide have had depressive illnesses.
attempt suicide (=try to kill yourself)
She had attempted suicide twice.
contemplate suicide (=think that you might try to kill yourself)
I contemplated suicide on several occasions after my daughter died.
suicide + NOUN
a suicide attempt
He was admitted to a psychiatric facility after a suicide attempt.
a suicide bid (=a suicide attempt – used in news reports)
The singer was rushed to hospital after an apparent suicide bid.
a suicide note (=a letter in which someone explains their reasons for killing themselves)
He left a suicide note for his two teenage children saying ‘Please forgive me.’
a suicide threat (=when someone says that they will kill themselves)
Depression may sometimes lead to suicide threats.
a suicide pact (=an agreement that two or more people make to kill themselves at the same time)
She shot her husband and herself in a suicide pact.
the suicide rate (=the number of people who kill themselves)
The suicide rate among former soldiers is very high.
adjectives
mass suicide (=when many people commit suicide together)
He ordered his followers to commit mass suicide.
assisted suicide (=when someone such as a doctor helps a very ill person commit suicide)
Thirty-four other states have adopted similar laws banning assisted suicide.
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suicide• Police are treating the man's death as suicide.• In the United States, 35 states explicitly make doctor-assisted suicide a crime, including New York.• He told me the only way he could get checked in to a hospital was by attemptingsuicide.• Barry threatened to commitsuicide if she refused to marry him.• Rumoursspread that you had committed suicide.• Stephen required hospital treatment after his suicide attempt.• This would particularly apply where the risk of suicide is judged to be high.• To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide.• Moore's suicidenote was also read to the court.• There is graveconcern about the number of teenagesuicides recorded last year.
commit suicide• But Grundberg committed suicideJune 22,1994.• The Minister of Law and Order denied any police responsibility and suggested that many of those who died had committed suicide.• Elaine Blondobserved that he had committed suicide by stages.• The Gamester also ended tragically when Beverly, a gambler, falsely accused of murder, committed suicide by taking poison.• Only by restoring his musclespasm had he been able to conquer the impulse to commit suicide.• I have tried to commit suicide many times, but I couldn't do it.• The second time, like the first, no one could say for certain she had been trying to commit suicide.• After the cremains were found last June in a collapsedstoragelocker, Vieira committed suicide.