Then,the insect's bright wings stopped and it fell to the ground dead.

VOA: special.2011.01.29

Gunnery practice disturbs the dead, disrupts the ground.

射击练习扰乱了死者，扰乱了地面。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

She's a flower, she's perishable, she's half hidden, - and she's ultimately dead and in the ground-- whereas a star would seem to be something that she just can't be mapped onto if she is this half-hidden thing.

她是一朵花，是易腐烂的，有一半深埋在土里，最终凋谢回归土地-,如果她一般在土里,她就不可能是星星。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He blew his breath at them. The insects fell to the ground,dead.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

But,in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow,this ground - The brave men, living and dead,who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

The cemetery started as a burial ground for American Civil War dead.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26