In both cases, the purpose of baptism was to cleanse and rejuvenate individuals - whether alive or dead - into a new state of "eternal blessedness".

这两个洗礼的目的都是为了净化和重生-无论是活着还是死了-成为了“永恒的幸福”的新状态。

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We don't know whether he's alive or dead.

我们不知道他是死是活。

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He is not able to say positively whether it was born alive or dead.

他不能确定孩子是否一出生就死了。

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He refused to say whether the thieves are now in prison on other charges, or whether they are dead or alive.

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The Navy secretary said in the memo that the evidence did not prove whether Speicher was alive or dead.

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The reporter who conducted the interview with the two al-Qaeda members said they gave no evidence of whether he was alive or dead.

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