The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

对顺从习惯的异议已经死去了是因为它会驱散掉你的力量。

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He said in a whisper: "Hucky, do you believe the dead people like it for us to be here?"

他低声说：“哈奇，你相信死人愿意我们到这儿来吗？”

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You were dead lucky to get that job.

你得到那份工作，真是太幸运了。

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Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

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So says to this person, "Isn't it strange you have this dead-end job when you're twice as smart as your boss?

狗跟这个人说，”你不觉得很奇怪吗，你做这份没出头之日的工作,你的才智比你上司高一倍？

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So we need to revise our account of what it is on the physicalist picture to say that you're dead.

我们应该重新修改一下,物理主义学上对死亡的定义。

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If you equate health care reform with a public option, then, well, health care reform is dead to you.

BBC: Obama may soften healthcare plan

Once you know that you are not dead, you just want to make -- you just don't want to be dead, and you just want to do anything you can to kind of ... get out of the situation, and that is what I did.

CNN: WTC burn victim: 'I feel pretty lucky'

The wrecked spirits Millan encounters may be "kids that I once knew" and "all dead hearts to you, " but their effect on her clearly isn't as impersonal or otherworldly as the subject matter suggests.

NPR: Stars: Of Haunted Spirits And 'Dead Hearts'