I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about except that it had something to do with the miserably weary splitting up and my feeling that everything was dead.

我刚熬过一场重大疾病，具体就不说了,只是这与我和妻子不幸的分离有些关系,我感觉万物都没有了生机。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And he was a total dead ringer for the voice, of course, because it was him!

他和那个人的声音太相似了，他就是那个代言人！

记忆犹新的乘客 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So, I said, okay, I didn't want to assume so we clicked senior and frankly it was then a dead end because apparently to get some senior discount you need to have some special pass or something like this that we didn't have and yet that certainly wasn't obvious here so now we together and this person in particular had to figure out how you go back and then restart this process.

我说，好的，我不希望揣测，所以我点击了老人票,然后问题就来了，因为似乎,需要特殊的号码之类的东西来购买老年票,但是我们没有,明显我们不应该走这步,现在我们一起必须找出,怎样返回，然后重新开始这个步骤。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Usually it's not. That was the point that discussed in my chapter comparing him to Houston's film The Dead. Houston's film is filled with sentimentality and nostalgia. Welles generally avoids that, the way James Joyce does.

通常并非如此，那正是我在比较,他的作品与休斯顿的电影《死魂灵》,的章节中所谈到的，休斯顿的电影,充满了多愁善感和怀旧情绪，而威尔斯通常,尽量避免那样做，那是詹姆斯·乔伊斯的方式。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

00 Well, it looks like it's dead on 100, which was our initial price in test two.

看上去它就固定在，这和我们测试2的初始值是一样的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It was not very like... it was a dead place of cobblestone streets.

它不像是……它是一个死气沉沉的地方。

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