I was horrified that people would think I was dead and bury me alive.

人们会以为我死了而将我活埋的想法让我极度恐惧。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I was dead scared.

我怕得要死。

《牛津词典》

Almost everyone thought I was dead.

几乎每个人都以为我死了。

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The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the body.

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You've got to think about that and what it means and how were they transmitted and preserved without ; the means of technology, obviously, that we have today; and what was so exciting in the middle of the twentieth century was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.I'm sure that you've heard of them.

你们需要考虑到这点及这意味着什么,还有在没有当今我们所拥有的技术的年代,是如何传播和留传下来的;,在20世纪中期时最令人兴奋的就是发现了,死海古卷，我确定你们曾经听说过。

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So, I said, okay, I didn't want to assume so we clicked senior and frankly it was then a dead end because apparently to get some senior discount you need to have some special pass or something like this that we didn't have and yet that certainly wasn't obvious here so now we together and this person in particular had to figure out how you go back and then restart this process.

我说，好的，我不希望揣测，所以我点击了老人票,然后问题就来了，因为似乎,需要特殊的号码之类的东西来购买老年票,但是我们没有,明显我们不应该走这步,现在我们一起必须找出,怎样返回，然后重新开始这个步骤。

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Good calls, but then I was dead wrong with a bullish stance in 2008.

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"A guy came and took me, thinking I was dead, " she remembers now.

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They did this regardless of whether I was dead or alive, because the American warrior does not leave a fallen comrade behind.

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