We say this is like beating a dead horse.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

So, to summarize, the happiest, the most fortunate man that Solon ever knew was a dead Athenian that nobody ever heard of.

总而言之,梭仑所说的,最幸福最幸运的人,是个无人知晓的已故雅典人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I am not a Dead Head, I am not, you know, sort of like, the kind of fan that followed them around.

我不是个死脑筋，我不是那种能追随他们到天涯海角的粉丝。

精彩音乐会 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Everyone is half-dead. It does not matter if you shell them because you are shelling a dead body."

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Aha! So to study and grasp things about dead bodies, corpses, you must yourself be a dead body.

所以为了研究并掌握关于尸体的知识,你自己必须先是一具死尸

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The new foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, recently said the peace process is at "a dead end."

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

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

She would quickly do the work required for a new dead reckoning direction and pass the information to her husband.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

So, I said, okay, I didn't want to assume so we clicked senior and frankly it was then a dead end because apparently to get some senior discount you need to have some special pass or something like this that we didn't have and yet that certainly wasn't obvious here so now we together and this person in particular had to figure out how you go back and then restart this process.

我说，好的，我不希望揣测，所以我点击了老人票,然后问题就来了，因为似乎,需要特殊的号码之类的东西来购买老年票,但是我们没有,明显我们不应该走这步,现在我们一起必须找出,怎样返回，然后重新开始这个步骤。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

As the train crossed a river I took out of my pocket the object that had dropped from Caswell's dead hand.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

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

Ranger Freeman said members of search-and-rescue teams have a saying that victims are not dead until they are warm and dead.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Halls, they try to design halls such that that doesn't happen, and I show an example of a concert hall here -- this is Symphony Hall in Boston, and I can pretty much guarantee you if you do go to this Symphony Hall, you will not experience a bad seat or a dead seat.

大厅，他们建大厅的时候,尽量要避免这种事,我这里给你们展示一个,音乐厅的例子-这是波士顿,的交响乐厅，我可以向,你们保证如果你去那里的话。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

It was not very like... it was a dead place of cobblestone streets.

它不像是……它是一个死气沉沉的地方。

肉品市场区的变迁 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

On February twelfth, outside Buffalo,New York,Muzzammil Hassan, a well-known local businessman, told police that his wife was dead.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

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

All the members of the Dead Weather had a part in writing the songs on their debut album.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

And then my father who has passed, who is dead I should say, and profound in his spirituality. A very soft-spoken person.

然后是我的爸爸，虽然他已经去世了，一致和深刻的精神世界，他是个很斯文的人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I could tell from the surrounding mountains that we were on the bottom of a long dead sea.

VOA: special.2011.07.23

Even there, a horse is not really a rigid body, unless it's been dead for a long time.

马甚至都不是真正的刚体,除非是死了很长时间了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Plant expert Doug Welsh says when you prune a rosebush, crape myrtle or shade tree, first remove dead, broken or diseased parts.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

The animal that eats its offspring, those genes are a biological dead end.

吃掉自己后代的动物，他们的基因走进了生物学的死胡同。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

And most of them would be dead within a month of this photo.

这张照片里大部分人在一个月后就死了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

For example, one American astronaut on a four-month long mission on the Russian space station Mir saw a vision of his dead father.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

She's a flower, she's perishable, she's half hidden, - and she's ultimately dead and in the ground-- whereas a star would seem to be something that she just can't be mapped onto if she is this half-hidden thing.

她是一朵花，是易腐烂的，有一半深埋在土里，最终凋谢回归土地-,如果她一般在土里,她就不可能是星星。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But General Ulysses Grant had paid a terrible price: more than fifty thousand Union dead and wounded.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Later in the term, we'll see why we have this syntax and why it wasn't just a totally arbitrary Python brain-dead decision by the designers of Python, and many languages before Python, but in fact is a pretty sensible thing.

这个学期的晚些时候,我们会去学学我们学这些语法的原因,以及这些语法其实并不是,和以前其他语言的设计者，一拍脑子做出的决定，实际上制定这些语法其实是相当明智的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So, the barber is speaking about his son in such a way that he seems alive, but, in fact, he's dead. So here is one dead child playing baseball, or the memory of him playing baseball is alive with his father.

这个老理发师在用一种谈论,活人的口吻谈论他的儿子，但实际上他已经死了，那么，这里是一个打篮球的孩子的死，也许对他父亲而言，关于他打篮球的记忆将长存。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选