Why are you so dead set against the idea?
你为什么那样死命地反对这个主意呢?
Why study Latin? It's a dead language.
为什么学拉丁语?它已经不再有人说了。
We don't know whether he's alive or dead.
我们不知道他是死是活。
We need to free business from the dead hand of bureaucracy.
我们必须摆脱官僚主义对工作的严重影响。
Is the Western a dead art form?
西部电影这种艺术形式过时了吗?