By that time, the patient may already be dead.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

You set yourself the goal of trying to put yourself in the situation imaginatively of what it's like to be dead.

你给自己一个目标,试着假想自己,在死亡这种情况下。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They hung dead, well, not actually, actors pretending to be people that were dying from the trees.

他们把死尸吊起来，当然不是真的，而是演员假装成吊死在树上的死人。

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When he was sure she was dead, Murlock had sense enough to remember that the dead must be prepared for burial.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

We don't know what it's like to be dead, because every time we try to imagine it, we fail.

我们不知道死亡是什么样的，因为每次我们想象死亡，都无果而终。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

Yeah. Suppose I choose it right down there I guess 0. Well, the tangent there will not even have an x intercept. So I'm really going to be dead in the water.

好，如果我选猜想数为0，好吧,这个点的切线甚至和x轴都没交点,所以在这儿这一原则,真的不起作用了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In general,dead or living parts of plants need to be removed to improve the shape or growth of the plant.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

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

There seemed to be no end to the demand for men to fill the places left empty by dead and wounded soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Weep no more, woeful Shepherds weep no more For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor, So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head.

诗歌大意：，悲伤的牧羊人们不要再哭泣,利西亚斯并没有死去，虽然他被海水吞没，启明星也会沉入海底，不久便会修复他疲惫的头颅。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If the Jordan River is saved,they say, then the Dead Sea could also be brought back to life.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

The dead are raising their objections here to guns that will be used very shortly in the Great War. God reassures them, though, of course, what he says here is not reassuring.

死者在这里提出了他们对枪声的反对,那不久就会被用于世界大战中，上帝让他们放心，当然尽管他在此所说的并不是宽慰之言。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Hero's family decides to make Claudio believe that she is dead until her innocence can be proved.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

More importantly, the Homeric heroes are said to be bad role models for those who follow them, they are shown to be intemperate in sex, into these vices Socrates adds cruelty and disregard for the dead bodies of one's opponents.

最重要的是，荷马英雄们被说成是坏榜样,对他们的追随者而言，他们都太过纵欲、,还有被苏格拉底冠以残忍,与漠视对手尸体的恶行。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But now -- she is dead,of course, but it is all right it must be all right,somehow.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

If there are three possibilities--dead, alive, or suspended-- to be dead, we could still say you've got to be broken, incapable of P-functioning.

如果有三种可能，生存，死亡或者假死-,要死亡的话，你必须是被破坏的状态，无法拥有人格功能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If there is only a small amount of rot, the dead material can be cut away.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

From which it follows, the argument goes, that I don't really believe I'll ever be dead.

接下来，这个论点就变成，我不能够相信自己的死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If a ship was sailing in the middle of the ocean, a navigator could make mistakes using dead reckoning and no harm would be done.

VOA: special.2011.07.06

The central bad thing about the fact that I'm going to die is the fact that because I'll be dead I'll be deprived of the good things in life.

我即将死去的主要坏处,就是因为我会死掉,我生活中美好的事物都会被剥夺。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But an expert in emergency medicine says a person cannot be worse than dead.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

So if we accept the body theory, ? would there be dead alive after death, ? could there be survivor that is at my body?

所以如果我们接受了肉体论，那么人死后还会复活吗，还会有人以我的肉体重生吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

When he goes to a funeral, he wants to be the dead man."

VOA: special.2010.08.12

From the mere fact that you can't picture from the inside what it's like to be dead, it doesn't follow that nobody believes they're going to die.

仅从无法设身处地想象,死亡的感觉，不代表没人会相信自己会死。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It is rather for us,the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that,from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain;

VOA: special.2011.02.07

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

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

VOA: special.2009.11.12

You might worry about how badly off you're going to be once you're dead.

你们可能会担心死后情况会变得怎样。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But if the contents get bad enough, then you'd be better off dead.

但是如果生活内容极为糟糕，那么你死了更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选