be more dead than alive

常见例句

To make elephants worth more alive than dead, success needs to be rewarded.
为了使（当地人感到）活着的大象比死去的大象更有价值，保护大象的成功者需要得到回报。
To make elephants worth more alive than dead, success needs to be rewarded. These sales do not seem to qualify, but others in the future will.
为了使（当地人感到）活着的大象比死去的大象更有价值，保护大象的成功者需要得到回报。这批象牙似乎没有出售的资格，但今后要出售的象牙会符合法律规定的。
Marriage is the tomb, men climbed out, and strive to be the first woman lying in death, only 1000 good-matured million bond, and is more dead than alive.
婚姻只是坟墓，汉子在力争上游的爬出来，而女性躺在坟里，只是千羁万绊，只是生不如死。

Sad, but true: Some automakers may be worth more dead than alive.
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Alcatel-Lucent would be worth more dead than alive.
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Lenders have limited patience with funding such operating losses, and if there is no prospect for reducing them, then the company would be worth more to creditors dead than alive.
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