He acted like a father to his thirteen nieces and nephews, the children of his dead brothers.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall,-- By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

看着他的笑，我想起了阴沉压抑的礼堂-,看着他的笑，我想起了阴沉压抑的礼堂。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

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

Now, probably the form of power that we most readily associated with John Milton involves his position at the dead center of the English literary canon.

我们最容易由约翰·弥尔顿,联想到的力量形式很可能,与他处在英国文学经典的中心位置有关。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He and his team studied tree mass, dead wood and soil carbon in twenty-five mangrove ecosystems in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

VOA: special.2011.05.10

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

Several rushed to his aid. Moments later it was clear that Joshua Norton was dead.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

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

Most of his ships were sunk. Four hundred of his men were dead or wounded.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

And it's come to this, A man can't speak of his own child that's dead."

接着，这里说到，一个男人不能提及自己死去的孩子“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

That is when Christians celebrate the life of Jesus and his return from the dead.

VOA: special.2011.04.22

Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime... Milton is lamenting, once again, that Milton has been compelled to begin writing.

因为亲友的惨遇，痛苦的重压，迫使我前来扰乱你正茂的年华：,利西达斯死了，死于峥嵘岁月。,弥尔顿再一次哀叹道，他是不得以写这首诗的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Powell was dead. I laid his body down and continued to the cave.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

"He continued to climb up, over the dead bodies of his superiors.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

He continued to climb up, over the dead bodies of his superiors.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

He blew his breath at them. The insects fell to the ground,dead.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

He was dead. Someone had found his body on the street.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

It spread throughout his body. In another few days,he was dead.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

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

VOA: special.2009.07.04

One day Murlock was found in his cabin,dead.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The 36-year-old McNair was found dead in his apartment next to the body of his alleged mistress.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

But the offensive failed. Kony and his men subsequently launched a killing spree that left more than 1,000 people dead in eastern Congo.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

With his home in ruins, his father dead, and his family hungry, Faraj Samouni says he believes it is time to negotiate a solution.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

(Talks) He says the peace process,in his mind, has been dead for a long time.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

"I think that the reaction to this disaster was very quiet and peaceful, and people wanted to mourn the dead above their political views and how they evaluated the President and his party."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

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