In fact, considering that we spend more time dead than alive - we may live to be 100 but we are classified as "dead" forever after - it is perhaps a more natural state.

实际上，既然我们死去的时间远比活着的时间长——我们也许能活到一百岁，但在那之后就永远被归为“死去的”一类——死亡可能是一种更为自然的状态。

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By the time our officers arrived, the dead and the dying were everywhere.

当我们的警官到达的时候已是遍地尸首和垂死的人。

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The train was dead on time.

火车正点出发（或到达）。

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By that time, the patient may already be dead.

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We don't know what it's like to be dead, because every time we try to imagine it, we fail.

我们不知道死亡是什么样的，因为每次我们想象死亡，都无果而终。

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Even there, a horse is not really a rigid body, unless it's been dead for a long time.

马甚至都不是真正的刚体,除非是死了很长时间了

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Thus their travel time is a dead loss: and reducing that travel time becomes a very valuable and major benefit.

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In a non-negotiable six minutes, long answers equal dead time and a sharp reduction in the amount of questions you can ask.

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