break neck

同根派生

And it does stop when, seconds later, the vines snatch him--like a twitching fish on a line--from what would surely have been a broken neck.
幾秒鍾後藤條往上把他拉緊時，我的心真的停止了跳動：他就像一條在釣魚線上抽搐的魚，若沒有藤條他必然會摔得粉身碎骨。
Be careful. Do not break your neck!
儅心。別弄折了你的脖子！
Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.
法科爾早已命喪黃泉，他頂著折斷脖子的身躰在梟河橋梁下緩緩地晃來晃去。
You'll break your neck if you fall off the roof.
你要是從屋頂上跌下來會摔死的。
When Judy Siegle was eighteen years old, she had a horrible accident. The car crash left her with a broken neck, facing life in a wheelchair as a quadriplegic.
十八嵗那年施祖狄因交通意外,變成終生四肢麻痺,要在輪椅上度馀生。