Norman made a dead set at me as soon as I entered the room and gave me some very interesting news.

我一走进房间，诺曼就告诉我一些非常有趣的消息，力图赢得我的欢心。

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A fund will be set up for the dead men's families.

将为死者家属设立一项基金。

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As has already been pointed out, grammar is not a set of dead rules.

正如人们已经指出的，语法不是一成不变，墨守成规的。

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Da Vinci was a whiz as a painter (hint: "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"), a scientist and engineer, and a futurist dead-set on fighting the gravitational pull of his own times.

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My roommate was a stocky blond girl from Wishek who was so dead set on becoming a nurse that she practiced bringing me things a cup of water or, when I had a headache, aspirin.

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That's what Douglas Carter Beane does with "The Nance, " a dead-serious comedy set in New York circa 1937 in which Nathan Lane plays a self-hating gay man who makes a living playing outrageously effeminate gay men on the burlesque stage.

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