"It is," I said. "The wine cellar is just beyond these tombs where the dead of my family are kept.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

For example,if I said, "What do most people believe about what happens to you after you're dead?"

比如，“人们通常认为,人死后会是何种情形“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Having said that, there's really nothing so dead as The Norton Anthology,or ponderous, and I do order it with a little--well, some misgivings for that.

顺便说，没有哪本书,会比《诺顿诗性颂》更加无趣，或者说冗长乏味，我买这本书的时候就有点焦虑不安。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

They typically--they like to talk about the politics of it and this thing, that it's dead on arrival or it'ssomeone said it's an amateurish proposal.

他们不约而同地大书特书这个改革的政治色彩,或者说些这个计划死定了之类的话,有的人还说这是个欠考虑的改革计划。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The new Kansas-Nebraska bill, he said, simply recognized the fact that the Missouri compromise was dead.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

And haven't I just said, "Look, you can't picture being dead"?

我刚才不是说过，人无法想象自己的死亡？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"His wife has been dead for nineteen years," Tom said.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

should we conclude therefore, given that we've got the premise, "If you can't picture it or imagine it, then you can't believe in it," since I've just said, look, you can't imagine being dead, but that's not due to any failure of imagination, that's because there's nothing there to imagine or picture.

于是我们就应该基于这个前提，想象不了的东西就不能相信，得出结论吗“,我刚才已经说过，人不能想象自己的死亡，不是因为想象的失败，而是本来就没有东西可以想象。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"He's dead," said one of them.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

"Dead or worse," he said.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of these United States, is everlasting in the memory of his countrymen, for on the battleground at Gettysburg this is what he said: He said: "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;

VOA: special.2011.02.07

and even though Bubba was dead and Lieutenant Dan said I was nuts, I gave Bubba's mama Bubba's share.

VOA: standard.other

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

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

"There have been millions dead between us,he said, and it is now our duty to cherish the friendship between our two peoples as a special treasure,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

Most of the dead and wounded are said to be civilians who had recently returned to the capital after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia in January.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

In February,in what was seen as one of the most brutal attacks on Roma, police said Robert Csorba and his five-year-old son were shot dead when they tried to flee their home that was set on fire.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22