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1. "I'm going to take the car tonight, Dad, " he said. "Over my dead body!" his father answered.

"爸，今晚我用一下车子，"他说。"除非我死了！"他父亲答道。

2. A living dog is better than a dead lion.

[谚]死狮不如活狗。

3. One dead photographer does not do much for the cause he cares about, even if he did feel compelled to weigh in and take sides.

一个摄影记者，即便他认为自己有必要选择立场而支持某一方，一旦他死了，则于他所关心的事业来说也是没有多大帮助的。

4. A beggar was lying dead in the snow.

一个死了的乞丐躺在雪地里。

5. He was dead beat after a day's work.

一天工作下来,他累垮了。

6. The drains are choked (up) with dead leaves.

下水道被枯叶堵住。

7. Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them.

乌鸦吃死羊，先要哭一场。

8. Alec must have drunk an awful lot. He is lying on his bed, dead to the world.

亚历克一定是太贪杯了，他现在躺在床上睡得像死人一样。

9. He is trustworthy and I am dead sure he wouldn't hand me a lemon.

他为人可靠，我确信他不会把坏东西给我。

10. They sang a dirge for the dead person.

他们为那个死去的人唱了哀歌。

11. They questioned her closely about her friendship with the dead man.

他们仔细查问她与死者的情谊。

12. They are dredging for the dead body.

他们在捞尸体。

13. They cut away all the dead branches from the tree.

他们把树上的枯枝通通砍掉了。

14. He played dead.

他假装死了。

15. He could finish up dead or badly injured.

他到头来不是死就是重伤。

16. He gave effect to his dead brother's wishes by having his buried properly.

他合适地安葬了他的哥哥，实现了他的愿望。

17. His love for you is dead.

他对你的爱情已不复存在。

18. He is dead on the rabbit.

他对准那只兔子开枪。

19. His criticism on my mistakes is dead on the target.

他对我的错误提出批评，真是一针见血。

20. He cut the dead limbs off the tree.

他将树上的枯枝砍去。

21. He's been dead and buried for years!

他已死亡并且被埋葬多年了！

22. He's been on the beach for weeks and he's dead broken.

他已经失业好几个星期，身无分文。

23. He's dead and it's no use wishing him alive again.

他已经死了，希望他再活过来的想法也是枉然。

24. He built a chapel as a shrine to the memory of his dead wife.

他建了一座小教堂作为悼念亡妻的圣所。

25. He fell dead in his tracks.

他当场死去。

26. He was dead to all feelings of shame.

他恬不知耻。

27. He did not bestow one thought on his dead father.

他想都没有想过，他过世的父亲。

28. He got dead drunk on only two cans of beer.

他才喝了两罐啤酒就烂醉如泥了。

29. He's dead set on getting a new job.

他打定主意要找个新工作。

30. He sawed the dead branches off.

他把那些枯枝锯掉了。

31. His arrival in the capital scotched reports that he was dead.

他抵达首都一事止住了说他已死的传言。

32. He's flogging a dead horse in trying to persuade people to use canals instead of roads.

他拼命地劝人不要使用公路而去使用运河，真是枉费口舌。

33. He took ill on Thursday, and by Sunday he was dead.

他星期四突然生病，到星期天就死去了。

34. He was to all outward appearances dead.

他显然已经死了。

35. His mother is in the garden, snipping off the dead roses.

他母亲在花园里，剪下凋谢的玫瑰。

36. He spoke his lines utterly dead pan.

他毫无表情地背台词。

37. If he carries on driving like that, he'll end up dead.

他照这样开车,早晚得死于非命。

38. He saw the apparition of his dead wife.

他看见了亡妻的幽灵。

39. He cut away a dead branch.

他砍掉一根枯干的树枝。

40. He's dead, as sure as eggs is eggs.

他确实死了。

41. Although there was still a faint heartbeat, he was to all intents and purposes dead.

他虽然仍有隐隐心搏，但从身体各方面看已经死亡。

42. He was dead asleep.

他酣然大睡。

43. A place in which the bodies of persons found dead are kept until identified and claimed or until arrangements for burial have been made.

停尸房保存人的尸体的场所，直到身份被确认并被认领或直至埋葬的安排做好以后

44. Don't speak ill of the dead.

别说死者的坏话。

45. Twelve passengers are missing, presumed dead.

十二名乘客失踪，据信已经死亡。

46. Even if you pay two times the money, you can not expect to possess the building which is now in a dead hand.

即使你出双倍的价钱也不能指望得到那幢建筑，因它现在属于某个社团，不能转让。

47. Poor Mr White dropped dead in the street yesterday.

可怜的怀特先生昨天突然死在大街上。

48. The act or practice of feeding on dead bodies or carrion.

吃尸吃尸体或尸体腐肉的行为或实践

49. Jim intends to make a dead set at winning the tennis prize this year.

吉姆打算今年竭尽全力在网球赛中获奖。

50. Oh, no! I do not think I can make delivery before the dead line.

喔，糟了！我想来不及在截止日期前交货了。

51. The gangster killed the only witness to his crime, on the principle that dead men tell no tales.

因为死人是不会告密的，所以那歹徒把他犯罪的唯一见证人杀害了。

52. The gardener pruned the dead branches.

园丁剪去枯枝。

53. The gardener picked off the dead flowers.

园丁把所有凋谢的花朵摘了下来。

54. He belongs to a world that seems to us now as dead as the dodo.

在我们看来，他是一个落后于时代的人。

55. In our department, this rule has become a dead letter.

在我们这个部门，这条制度已成为一纸空文。

56. Small quantities of poison were detected in the dead man's stomach.

在死者胃中找到了少量的毒药。

57. Rebury hastily at dead of night.

在深夜匆匆再予埋葬。

58. In the massacre that followed the British quitting India, there was a photographer who made a sorrowing Indian family bury and rebury its dead several times till he got a perfect shot.

在英国刚刚从印度殖民地撤走之后的大屠杀中，有个摄影记者竟让一位死者悲痛的家人们数度将埋葬好的亲人挖出来再埋下去，直到获得一张满意的照片为止。

59. The Egyptians used to embalm the bodies of their dead kings.

埃及人以前用药物保存国王的尸体。

60. Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead on Easter Sunday.

基督徒相信耶稣在那个星期日(後定为复活节)里复活了。

61. A place for burying the dead; a graveyard.

墓地埋葬死者的地方; 坟地

62. The dead soldiers were mourned by their womenfolk.

士兵死亡後，女眷表示沉痛哀悼。

63. A place, especially a funeral home, where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation.

太平间一种在埋葬或火化之前存放尸体场所，尤指殡尸房

64. A long- lost brother, who was presumed dead, was really alive all the time and wickedly plotting to bring about the hero's downfall.

失踪了很久的兄弟，我们以为他死了，其实一直活着，而且在居心叵测地密谋搞垮主人公。

65. The singer's eyes hazed over and she sank down in a dead faint.

女歌手的眼睛模糊起来，颓然倒下昏迷了过去。

66. She shuddered at the sight of the dead body.

她一看到死尸就战栗起来。

67. She felt sick at the sight of the dead rat.

她一见那只死老鼠就感到恶心。

68. She was grieving for the dead baby.

她为死去的孩子悲伤。

69. Her deduction that he was now dead was correct.

她作出的他此时已经死亡的推论是正确的。

70. She is dead set on becoming an actress.

她决心要当一名演员。

71. She clung to the hope that her son was not dead.

她坚信她儿子还活着。

72. When she threatened to report us, she was in dead earnest.

她威胁说要告发我们，她可是郑重其事说的。

73. She fell to the ground in a dead faint.

她昏倒在地，全然不省人事。

74. Her father was dead set against her marrying Tom.

她父亲坚决反对她嫁给汤姆。

75. She always looks tired, dead and alive from morning till night.

她看去总是很疲倦，从早到晚一付不死不活的样子。

76. She sickened at the sight of a dead rat.

她看见死老鼠就感到恶心。

77. She claims to have seen manifestations of dead people in the haunted house.

她说她在那闹鬼的房子里看见了死人显灵。

78. She lay there inert, I thought she must be dead.

她躺在那儿一动不动，我想她一定是死了。

79. She's a dead ringer for a girl I used to know.

她酷似以前我认识的一个女孩。

80. She sawed off a dead branch.

她锯掉一根枯枝。