He felt half dead with tiredness.

他感觉累得半死。

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I thought you looked half dead at dinner, and who could blame you after that trip.

我觉得你晚饭的时候看上去累得要命，但在那次旅行之后谁会怪你呢。

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"This looks half dead most of the time, perhaps with just one branch that appears to be alive," says Sussman. "it shuts down all its non-essential processes."

“这种树大部分时间看起来都是半死不活的，有时仅仅是一个枝条表明这树还活着”萨斯曼说：“它是停止了所有不必要的生命活动。”

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And: "All around, people looking half-dead, walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head."

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She's a flower, she's perishable, she's half hidden, - and she's ultimately dead and in the ground-- whereas a star would seem to be something that she just can't be mapped onto if she is this half-hidden thing.

她是一朵花，是易腐烂的，有一半深埋在土里，最终凋谢回归土地-,如果她一般在土里,她就不可能是星星。

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The Dead Sea lost thirty-three percent of its surface area during the last half-century.

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That means investors figured Jobs was only half dead.

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Mohammed Rahman left Jasmin Chowdhury, 32, in a "half-dead state" after the attack at their home in the Isle of Dogs, south-east London, last December.

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