The first street we tried turned out to be a dead end.

我们想走的头一条路结果是条死胡同。

《牛津词典》

I crept out of bed in the dead of night and sneaked downstairs.

深夜我悄悄地从床上爬起来，蹑手蹑脚地下了楼。

《牛津词典》

I drove out to give him a jumpstart because his battery was dead.

我把车开出来帮他做借电启动，因为他的电池没电了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

As the train crossed a river I took out of my pocket the object that had dropped from Caswell's dead hand.

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But if death means permanent cessation of P-functioning, then it turns out the dead weren't really dead after all.

但如果死亡指的是人格功能性的永久停止，那就说明死者并非死去。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So it turns out that during that period in which they were dead, they were only temporarily not P-functioning.

那么在他们死去的那段时间，他们只是暂时没有人格功能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Knowing such itineraries might help us to better understand the nature of massive die-offs (thousands of black birds falling dead out of the sky, for example), or of the itineraries of bio-invasives such as the Burmese Pythons in the Everglades.

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He scooped the dead stuff out of the pool with a net while he sold a guy in Dublin an insurance policy, or something.

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Congo's war, which has left an estimated two million dead, broke out in 1998.

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