棺材钉

可怜的查尔斯非常悲痛。当她的棺材钉上盖子时，他简直无法忍受那铁锤敲打的声音。

Charles , pitiful in his grief , could barely endure the sounds of the hammer as her coffin was nailed shut .

更重要的是要知道迈克尔维克已经回到了他的亚特兰大老东家，或艾美奖，和谁是给你的棺材钉钉子的人。

It 's more important to know that Michael Vick has returned to play his old team in Atlanta or an Emmy and not who is driving a nail in your coffin .

这一切似乎给200年前诞生的集体乐观主义的棺材钉下了钉子，当时的启蒙运动构想了一个理性照耀的世界，驱逐了愚昧、贫穷、战争和疾病的永恒苦难。

All of which seems to put the nail in the coffin of a collective optimism born 200 years ago , when the enlightenment envisioned a world illuminated by reason , banishing the eternal afflictions of ignorance , poverty , war and disease .

慈善组织乐施会（oxfam）把这次会议称为“在减少世界饥饿这一目标的棺材上钉上又一个钉子”。

The charity Oxfam called the meeting " another nail in the coffin of the goal to reduce world hunger " .

是通过公开承认陷害大卫·克拉克在家族棺材上钉上最后一颗钉子

is to put a final nail in the family coffin by publicly admitting to framing David Clarke .

为什么非要用钉子把棺材的盖子钉住？

Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin ?