击死 meaning in Chinese

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I accidentally discovered a rule against eating goose - meat in my colleague s family . after a curious inquiry , i learned that a big white goose raised by the family once saved the life of one of his forefathers . during a heavy hail storm , the goose pushed the forefather down with his wings and covered him with his body to protect him , only to be killed by the hailstones himself
有次无意中发现同事家有不吃鹅肉的家规，好奇询问之下，才得知原来是同事家有一位先辈，有一天突然遭到冰雹袭击，正当危急时，家中所豢养的大白鹅用翅膀将他扑倒，并用身体掩护他，不过大白鹅自己却被冰雹击死。
And dimly she realized one of the great laws of the human soul : that when the emotional soul receives a wounding shock , which does not kill the body , the soul seems to recover as the body recovers . but this is only appearance . it is really only the mechanism of the re - assumed habit
模糊地，她感悟了人类灵魂的一条伟大的法则，那便是当一个人受了刨伤的打南昌，而肉体没有被击死的时候，灵魂便好象和肉体一样痊愈起来，但这只是外表罢了，实在那不过是习惯恢复过来的一种机械作用。