on the dead

基本解释

So he picked up the leaves and laid one of them on the dead woman's mouth and the other two on her eyes.
于是他拣起三片叶子，一片放在妻子的嘴上，另两片放在眼睛上。刚放好，王后的血就在血管里流动起来。
The second act of a celebrity tragedy is cleaner, simpler than the confusing first act: everyone suddenly begins to heap encomiums on the dead.
名流悲剧的第二幕比“困惑”这第一个段落清楚、简单得多：每个人都忽然开始堆积对这些死亡的赞美。
The fish just come up and start nibbling your feet, and then eventually you get a pretty big swarm of them biting in between your toes and on the dead skin.
这些鱼涌上来开始一点点地咬我们的脚，然后，就有一大群小鱼聚在你的脚趾间啃食死皮。

Kevin Brennan of the Poplar Island Project says ducks like to build their homes on the dead trees.
On the positive side,when we cultivate these things, it also helps us deal much better with the negative when dead arises.
在积极的一方，当我们注重培养这些情感因素，就会助于我们更好地处理,消极因素。
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So we need to revise our account of what it is on the physicalist picture to say that you're dead.
我们应该重新修改一下,物理主义学上对死亡的定义。
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Market did close on the dead lows yesterday after a monster run.
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