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。
It lay there with its eyes closed , dead as a doornail .
它躺在那里眼睛闭着,确实死了。
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。
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。
On the political front , though I thought we were deader than a doornail coming out of chicago , and humphrey was sticking with lbj 's vietnam policy , I still wanted him to win .