1. But this killing leaves him confused—not because it is a murder, but because “good people” failed to call the police.
    惟独这桩谋杀使他百思不得其解──不是因为它是杀人案，而是因为"好市民们"没有打电话报警。

2. By using pain-killing drugs that wear off quickly and a simple pain medicine, patients weren't driven into a long sleep and could breathe on their own sooner.
    使用药性消失得快的止痛药和简单的止痛片，病人不会沉睡太久，而且能更快恢复自行呼吸。

3. What you´ve done is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
    你所做的就是杀鸡取卵。

4. The hospitals had cut way back on the large amounts of pain-killing drugs usually given during and after surgery that were used primarily to control blood pressure, not pain.
    这些医院削减了原本大量使用的止痛药，这些药通常在手术中和手术后都使用，主要是用来控制血压而不是止疼。

5. Over time, people starve themselves of both food and air, effectively weakening and hooking their children, eventually killing themselves.
    久而久之，人们不但缺少食物，而且还缺少空气，这样不但大大地削弱了孩子们的体质，还使他们染上了烟瘾，最终还会致他们于死地。

6. 6. What is the writer's level of comfort with killing a robber in self-defense?
    于是我以生命做赌注，希望他拿了我的钱以后离开。但愿我能赢。

7. Hanging is an atrociously archaic way of killing a human being .
    绞刑是一种残忍的杀人方法.

8. Hanging is an atrociously archaic way of killing a human being
    绞刑是一种不再使用的残忍的杀人方法。

9. He stabbed her a third time — killing her.
    他第三次用刀刺她——就这么杀了她。

10. Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects.
    蜘蛛至少有半年在忙于吃昆虫。