Many of the Texans wanted to shoot the Mexican general. But Houston said he was worth more alive than dead.

许多德克萨斯人要求枪毙这位墨西哥的将军，但休斯顿说，让他活着比让他死更有价值。

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Six months later, when his attacker went on leave, he paid a cousin $200 to shoot him dead.

然后他暗中打听到了军官的住处，六个月后，在军官休假的时候，他花了200美元，要一位表兄弟把那个军官干掉了。

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It's useless to shoot a dead horse, especially when other person needs your help more than ever.

射击一匹死马有何用，尤其是当别人比以往都需要你帮助的时候。

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The prosecution allege Mr Taft recruited the group of men, who made phone calls threatening to shoot dead members of Mr Sherratt's family and his friends.

BBC: Dandilion Avenue, Cheadle

To protect us, she claimed, but more likely to shoot my father dead if she ever saw him again.

NEWYORKER: The Pura Principle

Only at the end of all this legal flurry may the public finally learn how an innocent man came to be shot dead under a shoot-to-kill policy used for the first time outside Northern Ireland.

ECONOMIST: The police are to be prosecuted��sort of