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

VOA: special.2009.06.06

That doesn't seem right He's not dead on Monday ? How could I kill him on Monday?

似乎不是,他星期一还没死,我怎么可能在星期一杀死了他？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I think that Milton intends for us to think of the verse in Paradise Lost as he wanted us to think of books in Areopagitica: the lines of Milton's poetry are not absolutely dead things, but they do contain within them a potency of life.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由中》让我们把书看作是肉体,我想他也想让我们这样看待《失乐园》的诗句：,弥尔顿的诗句不是毫无生气的，它们蕴含着生命的潜质。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But now that he's dead,I got to be the captain.

VOA: standard.other

Well, most of us don't feel comfortable saying that he's dead.

应该说，我们中大多数人会不喜欢这说法。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Lieutenant Dan,Coleman's dead! I know he's dead!

VOA: standard.other

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