How I should enjoy opening a mullet or a whitefish just to find there the tail of a dead donkey!

要是剖开了一条鲻鱼或白鱼，却发现那里有条死驴的尾巴，那真是太可怕了！

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The single pleasure I can imagine is to die or see him dead!

我所能想象到的唯一欢乐就是死去，要不就看他死！

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I argued that it was not so trivial, that were it not for the precious accident of the train schedule, I would be in prison or dead.

我想胜利不能算小，如果没有火车时刻表给我的宝贵的抢先一着，我早就给关进监狱或者给打死了。

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Having said that, there's really nothing so dead as The Norton Anthology,or ponderous, and I do order it with a little--well, some misgivings for that.

顺便说，没有哪本书,会比《诺顿诗性颂》更加无趣，或者说冗长乏味，我买这本书的时候就有点焦虑不安。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I can't picture or imagine my being dead.

无法想象自己的死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I was in The British War Museum, the Imperial War Museum the other day, and I'd been there four or five times, and I went--and they have a thing where you can look up dead people.

我去过英国军事博物馆,有一天去帝国军事博物馆,我去过四五次了,我又去了,那有一个,东西你可以搜索阵亡人

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"I won't tell you that one or the other is dead because I don't know, " he said.

BBC: Islamist commander Abou Zeid's death in Mali 'probable'

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

CNN: VA assistant secretary: 'My crew thought I was dead'

When I went, when I realised that the fire personnel that I had talked to were all dead, before the judge had died that maybe another 20 or 30 people that I knew were gone, with a really good chance that they were dead, I think at some point during the day, I think, the anger was all directed at human beings, not at God.

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