In general,dead or living parts of plants need to be removed to improve the shape or growth of the plant.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

This is a poet who, with his wife, practiced automatic writing, who believed that the dead spoke through the living.

他是这样的诗人，和他妻子一起，尝试着，自动写作，他们相信死人通过活人说话。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Of what use could a dead man be to the living?

一个死人对活人有何用处？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The brave men,living and dead,who struggled here,have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

A writer like Mary Astell can employ Milton's revolutionary rhetoric to advance a cause to which John Milton himself would of course ; have had difficulty subscribing; a dead Milton could exercise a social power that had nothing whatsoever to do with the living Milton's own social views.

一个像玛丽·阿斯苔这样的作者可以用弥尔顿的革命性语言,来推动一项事业，一项约翰·弥尔顿本人当然很难,赞同的事业;,死去的弥尔顿竟然能够操纵与生前弥尔顿的社会观点,毫无关系的社会力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And to honor the traditional Chinese belief that the spirits of the dead could protect the living.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living," she would say.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

She could speak to the dead and read the minds of the living.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

"Then we tell them to follow some new rules for living that will decrease their chances of ending up dead or in prison and increase their chances dramatically of staying alive and free."

VOA: special.2010.08.26

But,in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow,this ground - The brave men, living and dead,who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

It is rather for us,the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that,from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain;

VOA: special.2011.02.07