Alive, the elephant was worth at least a hundred pounds; dead, he would only be worth the value of his tusks, five pounds, possibly.

这头象，活着能值至少一百英镑，死了就只有象牙能值点钱了，五个英镑吧，也就这么多了。

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And he admitted that he would not be caught dead in any "low-rider" jeans.

他还承认自己不会穿低腰牛仔裤。

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And then she remembered that human beings could not live in the water, so that when he got down to her father's palace he would be quite dead.

可是她又记起人类是不能生活在水里的，他除非成了死人，是不能进入她父亲的官殿的。

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It was a moment of unaccountable seriousness: this image was how he would be remembered when he was dead.

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