Poor Pinocchio huddled close to the doghouse more dead than alive from cold, hunger, and fright.

可怜的皮诺乔蜷缩在狗窝旁边，又冷又饿又害怕，简直是半死不活。

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God has made devices to keep fish and other aquatic animals alive in cold regions.

神设定了装置，让鱼和其他水生动物生活在寒冷的区域。

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I'm referring, of course, to the proverbial frog that, placed in a pot of cold water that is gradually heated, never realizes the danger it's in and is boiled alive.

没错，我说的就是著名的“温水煮蛙”，冷水锅中的青蛙在逐渐升温的水中怡然自得，丝毫没有感到危险来临，直到被活活煮死。

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In other words, a person who is suffering from the effects of severe cold may seem dead,but still be alive.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Was my Princess Dejah Thoris alive or did she lie cold in death?

VOA: special.2010.07.31

But I was also excited by the battle of ideas, and saw the height of ideological combat in the last years of the cold war as an exhilarating time to be alive and thinking.

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In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

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