也许正是因为被逼上绝路才会激发出潜能。

It maybe the dead end road that led to my hidden potential.

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原文意思是：“一百年前，少数族群居住在一起，以自我保护（或者他们是因为被逼无奈，只好住在一起）”。 “clustered”是居住在一起的意思。

A century ago ethnic-minority groups clustered for self-defence, or because they were forced to.

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甚至有些时候，连他们的母亲都很难去接受自己的孩子，因为她们是被逼得，她们可能并不想要这个孩子。

Sometimes, even the mother has difficulty of accepting the child as, you know, as a child that she wants and she loves.

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Many of them say it's remarkable that they were never pushed to the point where they want to gun at their classmates, because they feel like they know what kinds of experiences these young boys went through.

很多人认为不可思议,这两个凶手竟然会被逼到这个份上,拿着枪对这自己的同学，因为他们觉得他们知道,这些青少年男孩子们所经历的一切。

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