Many of the Texans wanted to shoot the Mexican general. But Houston said he was worth more alive than dead.

许多德克萨斯人要求枪毙这位墨西哥的将军，但休斯顿说，让他活着比让他死更有价值。

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It's useless to shoot a dead horse, especially when other person needs your help more than ever.

射击一匹死马有何用，尤其是当别人比以往都需要你帮助的时候。

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It's useless to shoot a dead horse, especially when other person needs your help more than ever.

马后炮真的一点意义都没有，尤其是别人无比需要你的帮助的时候。

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The prosecution allege Mr Taft recruited the group of men, who made phone calls threatening to shoot dead members of Mr Sherratt's family and his friends.

BBC: Dandilion Avenue, Cheadle

McClenaghan, 49, of Broad Street, Magherafelt, used an antique double-barrelled gun to shoot the mother-of-four dead in the Portstewart launderette where she worked in March 2011.

BBC: Marion Millican

He tries and fails to launch uprisings in Argentina, then Bolivia, where in 1967 government troops shoot him dead and bury him with neither ceremony nor hands, in order to prove, with fingerprints, that they got their man.

ECONOMIST: Bad for Latin America, then and now