If you flatter your mother a bit she might invite us all to dinner.
你如果多奉承你母亲几句话,说不定她会把我们全部请去吃饭。
I didn't do it on purpose.
我不是故意的。
But even in the most favourable circumstances only a small fraction of the creatures that die are preserved in this way before decay sets in or, even more likely, before scavengers eat them.