YOU SAID:
Jacob Marley was as dead as a doornail.
INTO JAPANESE
ジェイコブ・マーリーは玄関の釘のように死んでいた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Jacob Marley was dead as a doornail.
INTO JAPANESE
ジェイコブ・マーリーは玄関釘として死んだ。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Jacob Marley died as a doornail.
INTO JAPANESE
ジェイコブ・マーリーは玄関釘として亡くなった。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Jacob Marley died as a doornail.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.