Her husband's been dead a year now.

她的丈夫已经去世一年了。

The group had shot dead another hostage.

该组织又开枪打死了一名人质。

...their dead brother.

他们死去的兄弟

...old newspapers and dead flowers.

旧报纸和枯死的花

...charred land, mountainsides of dead earth and stumps of trees.

烧焦的土地、无一活物的山坡和残存的树桩

But this water seems dead: it's polluted and horribly stagnant.

但这似乎是一潭死水：受了污染而且恶臭无比。

...some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.

某个死气沉沉的小镇，那里最有活力的东西就是苍蝇

This made that holiday week a particularly dead period.

这让那一周的假期显得特别沉闷。

The dead cigarette was still between his fingers.

那支已熄灭的香烟仍在他指间。

This bottle's dead. But we've got another one.

这一瓶已经空了，不过我们还有一瓶。

It's a dead issue, Baxter.

这个问题已经没人再谈论了，巴克斯特。

But that doesn't mean this brand of politics is dead or dying.

但那并不意味着这种政治主张已经或正在消亡。

The deal with Chelsea may not, however, be dead.

不过，与切尔西的交易或许还有戏。

We used to grumble that we were wasting time learning a dead language.

我们过去常常抱怨自己是在浪费时间学一门死语言。

On another occasion I answered the phone and the line went dead.

还有一回，我一接电话，就掉线了。

'That is correct, Meg,' he answered in his cold, dead voice.

“没错，梅格。”他用冰冷、阴沉的声音答道。

Then he heard a piercing scream echoing down the deep well, ending in a dull, dead thud.

接着他听见深井里回响起一声刺耳的尖叫，然后是砰的一声闷响，再之后就什么也听不见了。

He adjusted each chesspiece so that it stood dead centre in its square.

他调整每颗棋子，使它们立于格子的正中央。

They hurried about in dead silence, with anxious faces.

他们匆匆地走来走去，一言不发，面露焦急之色。

Lila's boat came to a dead stop.

莉拉的船猝然停下。

Mars was visible, dead in the centre of the telescope.

可以看得见火星，就在望远镜的正中央。

Their arrows are dead on target.

他们的箭正中靶心。

A fishing boat came out of nowhere, dead ahead.

一艘渔船不知从什么地方冒了出来，就在正前方。

Meadowhall is also dead easy for people to get to.

去梅多霍尔购物中心也非常方便。

His poems sound dead boring, actually.

实际上，他的诗听起来非常乏味。

I am dead against the legalisation of drugs.

我坚决反对将毒品合法化。

'Let's invite her to dinner.' — 'Over my dead body!'

“我们请她来吃晚饭吧。”—“除非我死了！”

I thought the whole business was dead and buried.

我以为这整件事已经完全了结了。

In two years, the British coal industry will be dead and buried.

英国煤炭工业只消两年就将彻底瓦解。

He dropped dead on the quayside.

他猝死在码头区。

75% of the firms he called were hostile and told him to 'drop dead.'

在他电话联系的公司里，75% 都怀有敌意，让他“见鬼去吧”。

Often a genius is recognized only after he is dead and gone.

天才往往在离开人世之后才得到认可。

You looked half dead after that journey.

经过那趟旅程之后,你看上去真是累坏了。

I feel pretty dead right now.

我觉得自己现在几乎快要死了。

I couldn't fly illegally into a country in the dead of night.

我不能在深夜乘飞机非法进入一个国家。

We buried it in the garden at dead of night.

我们在夜深人静的时候把它埋到了花园里。

Early one Thursday morning in the dead of winter I awoke to a blizzard.

隆冬时节的一个星期四，一大早醒来我就发现外面刮起了暴风雪。

This was a company that, by all appearances, had risen from the dead.

从一切迹象来看，这是一家已经起死回生的公司。

Faldo came back from the dead to win his third Open golf championship.

福尔多重整旗鼓，赢得了他的第三个高尔夫球公开赛冠军。

I wouldn't be seen dead in a straw hat.

我死也不会戴草帽。

...men who wouldn't be seen dead pushing a pram.

死也不会去推婴儿车的男人们

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。

We all stopped dead and looked at it.

我们一下子全都停了下来看着它。

She had meant to make a discreet entrance, but conversation stopped dead.

她本打算悄悄进去，但谈话却突然中断了。

The sight of it stopped them dead.

一看见它，他们猝然停住了。

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。