He was dead while his heart was filled with resentment.
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
他们的思想离开了社会的实践，他们不能站在社会车轮的前头充任向导的工作，他们只知跟在车子后面怨恨车子走得太快了，企图把它向后拉，开倒车。
他們的思想離開了社會的實踐，他們不能站在社會車輪的前頭充任嚮導的工作，他們只知跟在車子後面怨恨車子走得太快了，企圖把它向後拉，開倒車。
tā men de sī xiǎng lí kāi le shè huì de shí jiàn ， tā men bù néng zhàn zài shè huì chē lún de qián tou chōng rèn xiàng dǎo de gōng zuò ， tā men zhǐ zhī gēn zài chē zi hòu miàn yuàn hèn chē zi zǒu de tài kuài le ， qǐ tú bǎ tā xiàng hòu lā ， kāi dào chē ．
Their thinking is divorced from social practice, and they cannot march ahead to guide the chariot of society; they simply trail behind, grumbling that it goes too fast and trying to drag it back or turn it in the opposite direction.