If you take risks like that you'll wind up dead.

你要是冒那种险就会把命赔上。

《牛津词典》

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 really slept like the dead and did not hear anything.

你睡得挺尸似的，什么也没有听到。

《新英汉大辞典》

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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Well, similarly then, I put it to you, there's no mystery about what it's like to be dead.

同样的，放到人身上，死亡的感觉,并没有什么神秘可言。

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I am not a Dead Head, I am not, you know, sort of like, the kind of fan that followed them around.

我不是个死脑筋，我不是那种能追随他们到天涯海角的粉丝。

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With a publicity push from Minotaur, Mr. James's previous book, "Dead Like You, " fared better, selling more than 20, 000 copies in all formats.

WSJ: Peter James: In Hot Pursuit of American Readers

Mr. LINNELL: So you were like the king of dead air.

NPR: Serenading Science In A New Rock Album

"The song describes an imaginary 'street' that you could live on and place all your loved ones, dead and alive, as close or as far away as you like, " says Thornewill.

NPR: Jukebox The Ghost: 'Good Day'