I was horrified that people would think I was dead and bury me alive.

人们会以为我死了而将我活埋的想法让我极度恐惧。

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Why，Seth Smith， who is too lazy to get anything to liveon， so we are going to bury him alive．

唉，塞思·史密斯，他懒得没法活了，我们这就去把他活埋。

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Most people I know in politics or journalism work desperately to cope with the molten-lava flow of new information that threatens each day to bury us alive.

而且，在政界或新闻界里，我所认识的大多数人每天都在拼死拼活地工作，对付着像熔岩一样席卷而来、几乎要吞噬我们的大量信息；

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The woman said if people from the Washington County Mental Health Department didn't come get him that she'd bury him alive in the backyard.

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Cyril wanted to dig out a cave to play smugglers in, but the others thought it might bury them alive, so it ended in all spades going to work to dig a hole through the castle to Australia.

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There are times when that lock becomes too tight and grating to bear, as when a blond figure, garbed in ice-blue, crawls through a room on all fours, while another woman shovels earth onto her, in a doomed but determined bid to bury her alive.

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