To make elephants worth more alive than dead, success needs to be rewarded. These sales do not seem to qualify, but others in the future will.

为了使（当地人感到）活着的大象比死去的大象更有价值，保护大象的成功者需要得到回报。这批象牙似乎没有出售的资格，但今后要出售的象牙会符合法律规定的。

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In fact, considering that we spend more time dead than alive - we may live to be 100 but we are classified as "dead" forever after - it is perhaps a more natural state.

实际上，既然我们死去的时间远比活着的时间长——我们也许能活到一百岁，但在那之后就永远被归为“死去的”一类——死亡可能是一种更为自然的状态。

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Marriage is the tomb, men climbed out, and strive to be the first woman lying in death, only 1000 good-matured million bond, and is more dead than alive.

婚姻只是坟墓，汉子在力争上游的爬出来，而女性躺在坟里，只是千羁万绊，只是生不如死。

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Sad, but true: Some automakers may be worth more dead than alive.

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Alcatel-Lucent would be worth more dead than alive.

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Lenders have limited patience with funding such operating losses, and if there is no prospect for reducing them, then the company would be worth more to creditors dead than alive.

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