doornail

1. He drove into a tree at over a hundred miles an hour and was as dead as a doornail.
   他以每小时100英里的速度驾车，结果撞在一棵树上，一命呜呼。
2. This cute little door-mouse is as dead as a doornail.
   这个可爱的小老鼠像门钉一样牢固。
3. The old man was dead as a doornail.
   那老头已经直挺挺地死了。
4. After my long illness, any hopes I might have had of going to college next year were as dead as a doornail.
   由于长期生病，我明年上大学的一切希望都落空了。
5. It lay there with its eyes closed, dead as a doornail.
   它躺在那里眼睛闭著，确实死了。
6. Times are bad, the market is dead as a doornail.
   时势不好，市面清得不成话。
7. Marley was as dead as a doornail.
   老马利已经死定了。
8. It curled up and writhed about painfully, then quickly sank to the bottom, dead as a doornail.
   虫子缩成一团，痛苦的挣扎两下后，就沉到杯底死了。
9. The bird flew into the window and now wasas dead as a doornail.
   这只鸟突然撞到窗子上，现在已经是奄奄一息了。
10. I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail.
    我的意思并不是说，一根钉死在门上的门钉有什麽特别之处，至少就我所知是没有。
11. The treaty may be considered to be as dead as a doornail.
    这项条约可以认为是完全作废了。
12. The plants are all dead as a doornail.
    这些植物全死了。

n.

(as) dead as a doornail

• 完全死了的；死僵了的
  completely dead

noun

1. a nail with a large head