Many of the Texans wanted to shoot the Mexican general. But Houston said he was worth more alive than dead.

许多德克萨斯人要求枪毙这位墨西哥的将军，但休斯顿说，让他活着比让他死更有价值。

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It's useless to shoot a dead horse, especially when other person needs your help more than ever.

射击一匹死马有何用，尤其是当别人比以往都需要你帮助的时候。

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There's a new shoot coming up; the plant isn't dead.

正在长新芽，这株植物没有枯死。

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The prosecution allege Mr Taft recruited the group of men, who made phone calls threatening to shoot dead members of Mr Sherratt's family and his friends.

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He tries and fails to launch uprisings in Argentina, then Bolivia, where in 1967 government troops shoot him dead and bury him with neither ceremony nor hands, in order to prove, with fingerprints, that they got their man.

ECONOMIST: Bad for Latin America, then and now

Following a deadly shoot out, Tamerlan was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Deaconess at 01:35 this morning from blast wounds and gun shot wounds.

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