The Quick and the Dead

IN GENERAL , people are pretty good at differentiating between the quick and the dead .

通常，人们都比较擅长分辨生者与死者。

UNTIL recently , techniques for studying the quick and the dead evolved together .

最近，切死东西和切活东西的技术走到了一起。

She had him cast in her Western movie The Quick and the Dead .

她请他在她的西部片《致命快枪手》中扮演角色。

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead .

活人和死者之间的距离有十万八千里。

Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead .

他们必在那将要审判活人死人的主面前交账。

His decision was completely unexpected ? It was enough to surprise both the quick and the dead .

他作出的决定完全出乎意料，简直使活人死人都极为吃惊。

An instinctively divisive figure , former prime minister always believed in dividing the quick and the dead into the sheep and the goats .

这位前首相天生是一位引起分裂的人物，总是习惯将生者和死者划分为好人和坏人。

The uproar was enough to rouse both the quick and the dead .

这喧嚣声足以惊醒生者和死者。