He was already dead when the doctor came.医生赶来的时候他已经死了。

He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.他被送到医院时被宣告已经死亡。

He wouldn't scruple to shoot you dead if you got in his way.如果你妨碍他, 他会毫无顾忌地开枪打死你。

The group had shot dead another hostage.这个团伙已经枪杀了另一名人质。

dead matter无生命物质

mountains of dead earth and stumps of trees堆积如山的死土和树桩

The water is dead: polluted and stagnant.这是一潭死水：受了污染, 恶臭无比。

The deal with Chelsea may not be dead.与切尔西的协议或许还没有失效。

It's a dead issue, Baxter.这个问题已经没人再谈论了, 巴克斯特。

a dead language死语言

trying to rub his dead fingers back to life试着搓一搓他那麻木的手指让其恢复知觉

My leg has gone dead.我的腿麻了。

some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies某个死气沉沉的小镇, 在那里最富活力的是苍蝇

This made that holiday week a particularly dead period.这使得假期周变得特别死气沉沉。

The line was dead.线路不通。

On another occasion I answered the phone and the line went dead.另一次我接电话时, 线路不通了。

The car won't start; the battery's dead.汽车发动不了, 电瓶没电了。

He had a dead cigarette between his fingers.他手指间夹着一根熄灭的香烟。

The fire was dead.火灭了。

This bottle's dead. But we've got another one.这一瓶空了, 不过我们还有一瓶。

We sat in dead silence.我们在死寂中坐着。

Lila's boat came to a dead stop.莉拉的船猝然停下。

The train had come to a dead halt.火车已完全停下。

I feel pretty dead right now.我现在觉得累死了。

We were half dead after a journey of 15 miles on foot over rough terrain.我们在崎岖不平的路上步行15英里后都累极了。

'That is correct, Meg,' he answered in his cold, dead voice.“没错, 梅格。”他用冰冷、漠然的声音答道。

He remained dead to my most urgent pleas.他对我无比迫切的请求始终无动于衷。

She seemed to be dead to the situation developing around her.她似乎对于身边事态的发展漠不关心。

The blood drained from his face, leaving the skin a dead white.他的脸血色尽失, 变得惨白。

Then he heard a piercing scream echoing down the deep well, ending in a dull, dead thud.这时他听到深井下回荡起一声刺耳的尖叫, 砰的一声闷响之后, 尖叫声消失了。

a dead acoustic沉闷的音质

Sam was a dead shot with an air rifle.萨姆用气步枪射击十分精准。

The ball is dead.这个球是死球。

dead capital/funds呆滞资本/闲置资金

dead ground/zone/space盲区

If you screw up again, you're dead!如果你再搞砸, 那你死定了！

You're dead if your mother catches you at that.这件事如果让你妈妈逮到, 那你就要遭殃了。

I thought the whole business was dead and buried.我还以为整件事已经彻底结束了。

In two years, the British coal industry will be dead and buried.再过两年, 英国煤炭业就彻底完蛋了。

Often a genius is recognized only after he is dead and gone.天才常常在死后才得到认可。

I accepted finally that Mother was dead and gone.我最终接受了母亲去世的事实。

Is he really dead?—Dead as a doornail, old fellow.他真的死了吗？——确实死了, 老兄。

The staff in that library are all dead from the neck up.那个图书馆的管理人员全都笨死了。

The talks are now dead in the water.会谈现已宣告失败。

A 'no' vote would have left the treaty dead in the water.一张否决票可能就会使这个条约胎死腹中。

Horace was on the sofa, dead to the world and snoring loudly.霍勒斯在沙发上熟睡, 鼾声大作。

He dropped dead on his way to work one morning.他在一天清晨上班途中猝死。

75% of the firms he called were hostile and told him to 'drop dead'.他致电的公司中有75%都会态度恶劣地跟他说：“去你的”。

Good morning, Simone, and may I say I've never seen you looking lovelier?— Drop dead!早上好, 西蒙娜, 我觉得你比什么时候都漂亮！——滚开！

The poor woman was half dead with fright.这个可怜的女人害怕得要命。

The thugs beat him with baseball bats and left him for dead at the side of the road.一帮流氓用棒球棍殴打他, 把他扔在路边等死。

He put on a burst of speed and left the rest of the field for dead.他猛地加速, 将其他人远远甩在了后面。

Let's invite her to dinner.—Over my dead body!咱们请她来吃饭吧。——除非我死了！

I wouldn't be seen dead in a straw hat.我绝对不会戴草帽。

I wouldn't be caught dead in such an old-fashioned place.我绝对不会去那样老土的地方。

men who wouldn't be seen dead pushing a pram死也不会去推婴儿车的男人们

You're dead right!你完全正确！

He was dead against the idea.他坚决反对这个主意。

I am dead against the legalization of drugs.我坚决反对毒品合法化。

We all stopped dead, terrified.我们一下子全都停了下来, 吓坏了。

Passers-by stopped dead and gazed at the spectacle open-mouthed.过路人全都停住脚步, 目瞪口呆地盯着这奇景。

She had meant to make a discreet entrance, but conversation stopped dead.她本打算悄悄进门, 可是谈话却戛然而止。

She stopped him dead.她突然拦住了他。

The sight of it stopped them dead.一看见它, 他们猝然停住了。

That comment stopped the conversation dead, as indeed it was intended to.那句话使谈话戛然而止, 而说那句话的目的也正在于此。

A fishing boat came out of nowhere, dead ahead.一艘渔船不知从哪里冒了出来, 就在正前方。

The train arrived dead on time.火车准点到达。

Their arrows are dead on target.他们的箭正中靶心。

Mars was dead in the centre of the telescope.火星就在望远镜里正中央的位置。

He adjusted each chesspiece so that it stood dead in the centre of its square.他调整每颗棋子, 让它们立于格子的正中央。

The house is dead easy to get to.这栋房子非常好找。

His poems sound dead boring, actually.实际上, 他的诗听上去非常乏味。

He was dead tired, almost too tired to eat dinner.他筋疲力尽, 累得几乎连晚饭都吃不下。

I don't know if it was a guess, but it was dead on.我不知道这是不是猜的, 但确实很准。

The dead included six soldiers.死者中包括六名士兵。

a festival when the Chinese honour the dead中国人纪念逝者的节日

I flew into the country in the dead of night.我于深夜飞抵该国。

We buried it in the garden at dead of night.我们在夜深人静的时候把它埋在了花园里。

one Thursday morning in the dead of winter寒冬里一个周四的清晨

This was a company that, by all appearances, had risen from the dead.种种迹象表明这家公司已经起死回生。