1·I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
我个人认为，棺材钉才是五金制品中钉得最死的东西。
2·A fine would be the final nail in the coffin of the airline.
一笔罚款将最终断送该航线。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Both created a furore with the former revealing "a massive fraud" that represented "the final nail in the coffin" for the theory of global warming, deniers argued.
否认者争辩说，这两件事都利用表示为全球变暖理论“的棺材钉上最后一颗钉子”的“大规模欺骗”，造成了轰动。
4·You may see text messages as another nail in the coffin of face-to-face human interaction.
你也许觉得发短信是钉上人们面对面交流的棺材的又一颗钉子。
5·The International Atomic Energy Agency is expected this week to publish a new report putting the final nail in the coffin of that assessment.
国际原子能机构预计本周将公布一份新的报告，对这份评估报告盖棺定论。
6·The affair could be "the last nail in the coffin" of public trust in bankers, sighs one investment-bank boss, adding that "We can now add moral bankruptcy to the financial sort."
一个投资银行的老板感叹说，这一件事可能是公众对银行家们信任的“棺材封盖的最后一颗钉子”，他补充说：“我们现在除了财务破产，还多了道德破产。”
7·The $500-600 billion dollar annual pricetag may have just put a nail in the coffin of any agreement in emission cuts being chisled.
每年五千亿到六千亿美元的价签也许正是减排协议完成了一半的棺材上的一颗钉子。
8·You really ought to stop smoking. Every cigarette you light up is another nail in your coffin。
你一定得戒烟，你每点上一枝香烟，就等于往坟墓跨近了一步。 这里的another nail in your coffin相当于中文的“催命符”，意思是有害健康、危及生命的东西。实际上人们给香烟起的绰号就是coffin nail。
9·This is really the nail in the coffin for that.
这真的在棺材中是钉子为那。
10·As he prepared to leave hospital Orwell received the letter from his publisher which, in hindsight, would be another nail in his coffin.
出院在即，奥威尔收到了出版商的催稿信。 事实上，这等于又往他的棺材上钉了颗钉子。