Don't speak ill of the dead.
对死去的人，别说他的短处。
We had come to a dead end in our research.
我们的研究工作已陷入绝境。
She's dead set on getting this new job.
她打定主意要得到这个新工作。
400 people a year die of this disease on average.
平均每年有400人死于这种疾病。
Five people died in a house fire last night.
有五人死于昨夜的住宅火灾。
Her parents died while she was still at school.
她还在读书时父母就去世了。