About one quarter of the presumed dead are still considered missing persons, never to be heard from again.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

So physical life, physical matter, for the mature Milton is never lifeless or dead.

因此生命是具体的，物质是具体的，成熟后的弥尔顿没有失去活力，也没有死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Because what we want to know is what is like to be permanently dead, and these people were never permanently dead.

因为我们想知道的是,永久死去是什么样的,而这些人并没有永久地死去

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And then, I'm going to skip down a little bit: Though she never again called back any image of the dead man to dress up, pose, talk to and make answer, neither would she lose a new compassion for the cul-de-sac he'd tried to find a way out of, for the enigma his efforts had created.

接下来，我会跳过一些内容往下说：,虽然她从没有想起过，那个死人穿衣、摆弄姿势、,说话和回答问题时的样子，她也不会失去对他的同情，对他尝试摆脱,无路可走的困境所付出的，谜团一般的努力。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We'd all be better off dead, " or perhaps more accurately still, " all be better off never having been born in the first place."

我们死了会更好，“或者更准确地说，“没有出生会更好“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It can't be that what's going on in near-death experiences is that people are reporting about what it's like to be dead because-- so the objection says-- they never really died.

人们所说的自身死亡时,所产生的濒死体验,是绝对不可能发生的,因为,这种反驳这样说道,他们没有真正死掉

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选