Bruce Willis says he has been talking to his dead brother through a medium.

布鲁斯·威利斯说他一直在通过一位灵媒和他死去的兄弟交谈。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I was talking to John when the line suddenly went dead.

我正和约翰谈话，突然电话断了。

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How horrible it would be if the patient couldn't communicate yet could understand the people standing around his hospital bed, talking about him as if he were dead.

当人们围着他把他当死人一般谈论着时，如果病人只是无法交流，却能理解谈话，这该是多么糟糕啊！

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Since she is still talking about you dead sibling as if it happened yesterday (and, incidentally, doing so in a way that gives the impression she wishes her other two children who are standing right there had died instead).

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"The difference is you're talking about somebody dead in the vehicle or dying very quickly, or somebody being able to get out of the vehicle themselves, " said David Ward, director general of the London-based FIA Foundation for auto safety, which supports the Euro and Latin NCAP programs.

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In others, they are installing playful prompts, like trivia games, to get workers talking in traditional conversational dead zones, such as elevators.

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