This cute little door-mouse is as dead as a doornail.

这个可爱的小老鼠像门钉一样牢固。

It lie there with its eyes closed, dead as a doornail.

它躺在那里眼睛闭着，确实死了。

All the television pundits said I was dead as a doornail.

所有的电视评论员都说我“必死无疑”。

For God sake, I'm gonna be as dead as a doornail in five days.

算啦，我五天后就死翘翘了。

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么特别之处，至少就我所知是没有。

Being asked, the chef provisionally thought of the doornail on the door, then he answered that it's name was meat pie doornail.

厨师临时想到宫廷大门上的门钉，就回答说叫做门钉肉饼。

Without him, we would never eat our flesh and blood out of house and home. We would have to say good riddance to the green-eyed monster and breaking the ice would be as dead as a doornail.

莎士比亚知道引人注目的话语和饼干一样有吸引力，没有他我们从不会吃肉喝血，不会倾家荡产，我们不得不说可喜的摆脱了绿眼怪，打破僵局将会是一命呜呼。