die a natural death

基本解释

We must bury him as if he had died a natural death.
我们必须把他埋了就像他是自然死亡一样。
Equestrian statues: traditionally when all four of the horse's hooves are on the ground, it signifies that the rider died a natural death.
骑马塑像：根据传统，如果马的四蹄都着地，表明骑手自然死亡；
Napoleon died a natural death to the eye, but by a modern scientific analysis of the few hair left over by him, it was revealed that he had been poisoned.
从表面上看来，拿破仑是善终的，但根据对他遗留下来的几根头发所作出的科学化验，发现他是被毒死的。

Whataboutism seemed to have died a natural death at the end of the cold war.
ECONOMIST: Come again, Comrade?
Tastes are changing too: Twinkie the Kid might have been made from petroleum byproducts and artificial ingredients, but he died a natural death.
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They spoke little and only occasionally, in short sentences that never became conversation or dialogue, any hint of which died a natural death, interrupted by the attention that the woman was giving to her body, in which she was utterly absorbed, and by the indirect attention that the man, too, was giving to her body, through his camera lens.
NEWYORKER: While the Women Are Sleeping